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, however, Smith stressed that Jennifer Crumbley would have done a lot of things differently — which Jennifer Crumbley also stated in an interview with state officials preparing her presentencing report.
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Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press, 7 Apr. 2024
Betting everything on the stock market over the past two decades would have been the best way to go, in hindsight, but most investors didn't recognize this in advance and even fewer of them could have stomached the considerable gyrations along the way.
—The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2024
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Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press, 7 Apr. 2024
Betting everything on the stock market over the past two decades would have been the best way to go, in hindsight, but most investors didn't recognize this in advance and even fewer of them could have stomached the considerable gyrations along the way.
—The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2024
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“Hindsight.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hindsight. Accessed 19 Apr. 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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