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Recent Examples of retroactive
But, practitioners say, the review is retroactive, and mostly means additional time spent looking at patient records that could be spent seeing more patients.
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Meg Cunningham, Kansas City Star, 30 Oct. 2025
Federal workers typically receive retroactive pay when the government reopens.
—Connor Giffin, Louisville Courier Journal, 25 Oct. 2025
Regulation shouldn’t be a retroactive fix but a design principle.
—Sean Evins, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
The memo comes despite the Office of Personnel Management's own guidance last month, which said federal workers will receive retroactive pay after the shutdown lifts.
—Christian Orozco, NBC news, 8 Oct. 2025
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Meg Cunningham, Kansas City Star, 30 Oct. 2025
Federal workers typically receive retroactive pay when the government reopens.
—Connor Giffin, Louisville Courier Journal, 25 Oct. 2025
Regulation shouldn’t be a retroactive fix but a design principle.
—Sean Evins, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
The memo comes despite the Office of Personnel Management's own guidance last month, which said federal workers will receive retroactive pay after the shutdown lifts.
—Christian Orozco, NBC news, 8 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for retroactive
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The festival offers retrospective conversations, exhibitions, and special screenings, as well as a wide range of other competitions throughout the event.—
Leia Mendoza,
Variety,
29 Oct. 2025
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The retrospective marks one of the first major festival focuses devoted to Hamed’s work in Europe.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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In California and Oregon, the laboratories that typically perform analytical chemistry for wineries were quickly overwhelmed.—
Nicola Twilley,
New Yorker,
5 Jan. 2026
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Additionally, the analytical assessments performed by the team indicate that the sensitivity of this quantum array approach is higher than classical alternatives.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Jan. 2026
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Those years brought a new swath of fans to Gunn’s meditative folk and rock sounds, showcased on low-key masterpieces like 2019’s The Unseen In Between.—
Simon Vozick-Levinson,
Rolling Stone,
5 Nov. 2025
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Curate slow and meditative starts to the day during this season that support a regulated nervous system instead.—
Essence,
Essence,
4 Nov. 2025
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The mesh uppers are secure but not snug, and the reflective details come in handy for early morning or evening runs.—
Toni Sutton,
PEOPLE,
7 Jan. 2026
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Brent Weinstein’s trip to London did not go unnoticed in the UK agenting world and was reflective of where the industry finds itself as 2026 kicks off.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
6 Jan. 2026
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The town is a different place during the colder months – sometimes gloomy and overcast, other times brilliantly sunny, but typically quiet, even contemplative.—
Jonathan Shikes,
Denver Post,
27 Oct. 2025
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Those seeking a more contemplative experience might book a spot at the historic Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine for a meditation session in the serene gardens, a Hollywood favorite since its unveiling in 1950.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
25 Oct. 2025
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The actor sported a pensive expression while filming scenes for 1998's The Man in the Iron Mask.—
Grace Gavilanes,
PEOPLE,
11 Nov. 2025
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The post included a series of pictures of D’Angelo in the studio, as well as a snap of the two musicians in which D is giving one of his classic pensive, knowing looks and Hill is smiling as the pair lean their heads together.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Not even a meta ending that pushes that idea to its logical breaking point can sour you on it.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
7 Nov. 2025
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To be fair, public entities have been stretching public records trade secret exceptions to logical extremes long before college athletes started getting paid—and these carve-outs are often intended to be permissive.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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Scarlet feels like his biggest movie yet, a ruminative war picture that stages medieval battles and pitches its characters through the mortal coil and back.—
Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Retroactive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retroactive. Accessed 7 Jan. 2026.
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