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as in retrospect
a usually critical look at a past event
a review of yesterday's football game gave us a lot of good ideas on how to improve for the next one
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as in inspection
a close look at or over someone or something in order to judge condition
took the car to her mechanic for a complete mechanical review before she decided to sell it
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as in book
a publication that appears at regular intervals
had his poetry published in a literary review
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as in critique
an essay evaluating or analyzing something
a harsh movie review of an expected summer blockbuster
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as in alteration
the act, process, or result of making different
the company decided that the 100-year-old office building could use a review
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as in to revisit
to consider again especially with the possibility of change or reversal
since we can't follow that plan, we'll have to review our options and decide on something else
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as in to examine
to look over closely (as for judging quality or condition)
a consultant was brought in to review our security procedures
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Recent Examples of review
Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 19 July 2025
Garrett Brown, a former Cal-OSHA official who regularly tracks the division’s staffing levels, said his most recent review of the latest organizational charts from December show that 16 district offices had vacancy rates of 40% or greater.
—William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 18 July 2025
Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 20 July 2025
The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office is asking the public to review security camera footage for suspicious activity after three residential burglaries in Emerald Hills and Portola Valley this week.
—Devan Patel, Mercury News, 20 July 2025
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Noun
Be sure to follow me for all your daily puzzle-solving guides, TV show and movie reviews and more here on this blog!
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 19 July 2025
Garrett Brown, a former Cal-OSHA official who regularly tracks the division’s staffing levels, said his most recent review of the latest organizational charts from December show that 16 district offices had vacancy rates of 40% or greater.
—William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 18 July 2025
Verb
Over Clapp’s objections, the city has nominated much of the brewery campus for a local historic designation, borrowing the boundaries from a previous nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, which was reviewed by the State Historic Preservation Review Board in January.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 20 July 2025
The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office is asking the public to review security camera footage for suspicious activity after three residential burglaries in Emerald Hills and Portola Valley this week.
—Devan Patel, Mercury News, 20 July 2025
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The Patriots have seen rookie kickers fail before (see: Chad Ryland and Justin Rohrwasser), but in retrospect their struggles could be explained by questionable coaching, technique changes and lackluster scouting.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
22 July 2025
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In retrospect, Heartbreakers functions as a commentary on all of it.—
Rachel Handler,
Vulture,
18 July 2025
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Exceptions for medically necessary items will be made after inspection at a gate designated for this purpose.—
Ed Masley,
AZCentral.com,
14 July 2025
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Date of follow-up inspection: No follow-up inspection performed as of July 3.—
Mackensy Lunsford,
The Tennessean,
13 July 2025
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And yet, Ullmann calls this introspective book a novel, imposing some distance between herself and the story she’s told.—
Rachel Vorona Cote,
The Atlantic,
15 July 2025
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In this way, The Bewitching could be viewed as a dark academia book too.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
People.com,
15 July 2025
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During the judges' critiques, Mason Watts from Midnight Til Morning told Payne his family had won a competition in Australia to see One Direction from the front row at Madison Square Garden.—
KiMi Robinson,
USA Today,
17 July 2025
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The piece rightly notes that the question is open-ended and that students should take a strategic approach to answering it; however, the writer’s critique of the question—and the misguided strategies that students take in answering it—betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the question’s intent.—
Christopher Rim,
Forbes.com,
17 July 2025
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Lieutenant Governor Patrick has said that THC consumption leads to addiction and brain alteration, as reported in The Texas Tribune.—
Sophie Clark,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 July 2025
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The third hurdle is the widespread destruction or alteration of information (intentional or not), which has occurred several times in human history, and which is likely to occur again.—
Thomas Coughlin,
Forbes.com,
19 July 2025
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The retrial is expected to revisit key pieces of evidence, including surveillance footage, digital location data, and testimony from both forensic experts and individuals close to the YNW crew.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
15 July 2025
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Aaron Brookner and Rodrigo Areias documentary’s Nova ’78 – which debuts out of competition at the Locarno Film Festival in August – revisits the three-day event which ran from November 30 to December 2, 1978 in the Entermedia Theatre, now the Village East by Angelika cinema.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
15 July 2025
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Their main goal was to examine an area of the river where a magnet fisherman had found an anchor.—
Rose Androwich,
jsonline.com,
22 July 2025
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This study examines the ratio of the income floor for the top 20% of earners to the income ceiling for the bottom 20% of earners.—
Nathan Goldman,
Forbes.com,
21 July 2025
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Biden said age criticisms 'took on a life of its own' In the months since his November 2024 loss, questions over the impact of his age and perceived physical deterioration have not gone away, as the Democratic Party continues its retrospection of the defeat.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
14 May 2025
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But framing Paul American as a retrospection on labor, with the boys and their family and their lackeys gassing them up over and over, just isn’t that interesting.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
28 Mar. 2025
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