hindsight
noun
hind·sight
ˈhīn(d)-ˌsīt 
: perception of the nature of an event after it has happened
In hindsight, it's clear there were alternatives.
Hindsight is twenty-twenty.
Examples of hindsight in a Sentence
It's easy for us to say that the war was wrong, but we have the advantage of hindsight.
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In hindsight, the man is one of the Jasons, and the box is the device that Jason2 built to travel the multiverse.
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Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2024
By giving readers the gift of hindsight, Min shows how one enigmatic family falls apart and comes back together over several decades.
—Shannon Carlin, TIME, 1 May 2024
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Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2024
By giving readers the gift of hindsight, Min shows how one enigmatic family falls apart and comes back together over several decades.
—Shannon Carlin, TIME, 1 May 2024
See all Example Sentences for hindsight
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“Hindsight.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hindsight. Accessed 10 May. 2024.
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hindsight
noun
hind·sight
ˈhīn(d)-ˌsīt
: realization of the meaning or importance of an event only after it has happened
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