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retrospective

Main Entry:: ¹ret·ro·spec·tive
Pronunciation:: \-ˈspek-tiv\
Function:: adjective
Date:: 1664

1 a (1): of, relating to, or given to retrospection (2): based on memory <a retrospective report> b: being a retrospective <a retrospective exhibition>2: affecting things past : retroactive <retrospective laws>3: relating to or being a study (as of a disease) that starts with the present condition of a population of individuals and collects data about their past history to explain their present condition

— ret·ro·spec·tive·ly adverb

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