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Recent Examples of retroactive
Shortly before Saturday’s game, the Giants placed left-hander Erik Miller on the 15-day IL, retroactive to July 3, with a left elbow sprain.
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Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 5 July 2025
The delay means retroactive contract costs continue to pile up on top of likely raises and other costly union demands, including the addition of new ambulances to the Chicago Fire Department fleet to respond to medical emergencies.
—A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 13 July 2025
There is no logical reason why you should not be entitled to retroactive benefit payments.
—Elliot Raphaelson, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 July 2025
Since the Social Security Fairness Act went into effect, retroactive payments were sent out to beneficiaries in March and April, triggering monthly income to temporarily rise for nearly 3 million recipients.
—Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
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Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 5 July 2025
The delay means retroactive contract costs continue to pile up on top of likely raises and other costly union demands, including the addition of new ambulances to the Chicago Fire Department fleet to respond to medical emergencies.
—A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 13 July 2025
There is no logical reason why you should not be entitled to retroactive benefit payments.
—Elliot Raphaelson, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 July 2025
Since the Social Security Fairness Act went into effect, retroactive payments were sent out to beneficiaries in March and April, triggering monthly income to temporarily rise for nearly 3 million recipients.
—Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for retroactive
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On the retrospective front, Locarno will be exploring postwar British cinema from 1945 to 1960.—
Josh Slater-Williams,
IndieWire,
6 Aug. 2025
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The long poems pose an additional problem for a biographer: in these retrospective works, written in the seventies and eighties, Schuyler became a late-breaking autobiographer.—
Dan Chiasson,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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And for the New York Yankees, who have developed one of the largest analytic departments in Major League Baseball, the role of current manager Aaron Boone is different from those who came before him.—
Tyler Small,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Known for his cutting-edge, analytic approach at the college level, Golden briefly turned art critic as Bates revealed his latest effort for a capacity crowd of 120 people during a fundraising event staged by Florida Victorious, the Gators’ NIL collective.—
Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 July 2025
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This kit includes smooth river rocks, vibrant paints and specialized dotting tools that make creating intricate and meditative mandala patterns easy and satisfying.—
Nora Colomer
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FOXNews.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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Almost 200 fruiting and flowering trees add to the meditative atmosphere.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
6 Aug. 2025
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Kirilenko described her holding cell inside 26 Federal Plaza as a cold, cement room where women slept on benches or the floor, with just reflective blankets to keep them warm.—
Emma Seiwell,
New York Daily News,
9 Aug. 2025
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But behind the scenes, producers say the making of Chaotic was reflective of its title, mostly because the network, UPN, had purchased all of Spears’s footage unseen and then looked to producers to craft a multi-episode series.—
Krystie Lee Yandoli,
Glamour,
7 Aug. 2025
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Then there's the Parker's Heritage Reserve Stout, perhaps the most nuanced and contemplative beer in the lineup.—
Hudson Lindenberger,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
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Parts of The Scout, in its contemplative tone and observational style, reminded me of Perfect Days.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
HollywoodReporter,
14 July 2025
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Her pensive, probing Symphony in C-Sharp Minor had never been performed until the conductor Debora Waldman took it up and recorded it for Bru Zane.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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If the position happens to be software programmer, then your quieter, more focused, pensive side needs to come through.—
Phil Blair,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 July 2025
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Determining adjacent products like donuts for coffee and chips for sodas is logical.—
Tamara Bebb,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Many have read Gödel and come away chastened by the limits of certainty—without concluding, as Richardson did, that the logical next step was to spend your life playing cards and paying prostitutes.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Retroactive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retroactive. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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