look back
phrasal verb
looked back; looking back; looks back
: to think about something in the past
Looking back to/at last season, I can see why they didn't win the pennant.
I look back at/on that time with a lot of pride.
How she's changed! After college, she moved to New York, got a job on Wall Street, and never looked back.
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But the docuseries doesn’t shy away from an emotional, vulnerable and at times extremely painful look back at the past.
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Alex Ritman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2025
In a separate confessional, her husband, David Beckham, looks back at the microscope on women in the early 2000s.
—Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
Specifically, looking back over the past several years, there have been nine prior four-week declines of roughly 10% or more.
—Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2025
Fifty years after Linda Ronstadt’s Prisoner in Disguise came out, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee is looking back at the album that further cemented her reputation as a ‘70s pop superstar and supreme song interpreter, as Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab reissues the set.
—Melinda Newman, Billboard, 8 Oct. 2025
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Alex Ritman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2025
In a separate confessional, her husband, David Beckham, looks back at the microscope on women in the early 2000s.
—Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
Specifically, looking back over the past several years, there have been nine prior four-week declines of roughly 10% or more.
—Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2025
Fifty years after Linda Ronstadt’s Prisoner in Disguise came out, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee is looking back at the album that further cemented her reputation as a ‘70s pop superstar and supreme song interpreter, as Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab reissues the set.
—Melinda Newman, Billboard, 8 Oct. 2025
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“Look back.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/look%20back. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.
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