look back
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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Here's a look back at 10 key moments from the Knicks' championship run.
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Mark Prussin, CBS News, 18 June 2026
Cooke shared a post on social media looking back at his last day of filming Season 10 of Summer House last year.
—Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 18 June 2026
Yet looking back there from here much of the drama was in the slow logic of figuring out how and why.
—Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
Don Passman and Linda Lichter and I are going to do a look back and look forward on what’s changed in 50 years.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 17 June 2026
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Mark Prussin, CBS News, 18 June 2026
Cooke shared a post on social media looking back at his last day of filming Season 10 of Summer House last year.
—Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 18 June 2026
Yet looking back there from here much of the drama was in the slow logic of figuring out how and why.
—Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
Don Passman and Linda Lichter and I are going to do a look back and look forward on what’s changed in 50 years.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 17 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for look back
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“Look back.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/look%20back. Accessed 22 Jun. 2026.
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