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Recent Examples of backward-looking
The backward-looking mode involves starting with 2040 as the deadline for AGI and then working back from that achievement on a year-by-year basis to arrive at the year 2025 (matching AI presently).
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 13 July 2025
Iran is not a backward place, even if its current government is backward-looking and selfish.
—Colin Pascal, Baltimore Sun, 24 June 2025
That can be a challenge, especially in companies that grew up with quarterly closings and backward-looking metrics as the norm.
—Carlos Vega, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Sure, the results are backward-looking, but their forecasts and commentary factor in the latest information.
—Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 15 June 2025
Educate And Build Trust With Key Stakeholders Traditionally, performance has been measured using backward-looking datasets.
—Gladys Kong, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
In time alone, for starters, the case is ancient in internet years and tragically backward-looking.
—David Doty, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
But what investors will likely key on won’t be the backward-looking Q1 figures.
—Fred Imbert, CNBC, 21 Apr. 2025
Even in more normal times, Jim Cramer always preaches that hearing from management teams who provide real-time color on their industries can be more valuable than backward-looking economic data.
—Kevin Stankiewicz,matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 13 Apr. 2025
Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 13 July 2025
Iran is not a backward place, even if its current government is backward-looking and selfish.
—Colin Pascal, Baltimore Sun, 24 June 2025
That can be a challenge, especially in companies that grew up with quarterly closings and backward-looking metrics as the norm.
—Carlos Vega, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Sure, the results are backward-looking, but their forecasts and commentary factor in the latest information.
—Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 15 June 2025
Educate And Build Trust With Key Stakeholders Traditionally, performance has been measured using backward-looking datasets.
—Gladys Kong, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
In time alone, for starters, the case is ancient in internet years and tragically backward-looking.
—David Doty, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
But what investors will likely key on won’t be the backward-looking Q1 figures.
—Fred Imbert, CNBC, 21 Apr. 2025
Even in more normal times, Jim Cramer always preaches that hearing from management teams who provide real-time color on their industries can be more valuable than backward-looking economic data.
—Kevin Stankiewicz,matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 13 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for backward-looking
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Glass and gold nightstands add a luxe touch without taking up a lot of visual space, and a retro rotary phone can offer a nostalgic finishing touch.—
Nina Derwin,
Architectural Digest,
29 July 2025
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There is a constant paradox of art-making: as an art form accelerates its pace of change, its content grows more nostalgic.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
Adjective
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Among the events scheduled are a House Ways and Means hearing on crypto tax policy, a Dodd-Frank retrospective touching on decentralized finance, and ongoing closed-door meetings between Senate staff and industry stakeholders.—
Becca Bratcher,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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As a result of the confusion, retrospective press accounts have blended events from July 17 and 18 into a single narrative that may never be sorted out.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
9 July 2025
Adjective
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But his fingerprints are all over the album — both in its warm vocals and its introspective existential themes.—
Richard Trapunski,
Billboard,
24 July 2025
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This homecoming, driven by Stefan’s urge to complete a film about his mother as well as an attempt to make amends by rescuing a stray dog, will ignite an introspective journey.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
23 July 2025
Adjective
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The director’s philosophical approach to the project draws from observations of nature, particularly how rainforests sustain themselves through symbiotic relationships.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
28 July 2025
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His philosophical life came after his tenure as a leader in the tech world at SDG.—
Theodore McDarrah,
Forbes.com,
25 July 2025
Adjective
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This roundtable captures the urgency and fragmentation that characterize current attempts to define the Midwest as a coherent analytic object.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
17 July 2025
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Previously, clinical insights leads and analytic consultants were the ones who did complex analytics; now, their role is evolving into making use-case-specific prompts and reviewing outputs from LLMs as life sciences AI trainers and researchers.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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“Backward-looking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backward-looking. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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