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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
Julia Teti, Footwear News, 12 Aug. 2025
That means even comprehensive plans and zoning updates already adopted in the past year — after significant public input and review — are now vulnerable to legal challenge.
—Haley Busch, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
Tina Chen, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025
Officials also put new protections in place when issuing contracts, such as requiring the county’s contract procurement office to review all contracts that come from supervisors’ discretionary funds.
—Michael Slaten, Oc Register, 13 Aug. 2025
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Noun
The designer put her own nuanced spin on American sportswear archetypes, per Emily Mercer’s review of the collection.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 12 Aug. 2025
That means even comprehensive plans and zoning updates already adopted in the past year — after significant public input and review — are now vulnerable to legal challenge.
—Haley Busch, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
Verb
Fraud or scams can be reported to the Federal Trade Commission, which reviews unfair or deceptive business practices across the U.S.
Such complaints also can be filed directly with your local district attorney’s Consumer Protection Office.
—Tina Chen, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025
Officials also put new protections in place when issuing contracts, such as requiring the county’s contract procurement office to review all contracts that come from supervisors’ discretionary funds.
—Michael Slaten, Oc Register, 13 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for review
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Seeing the demand and the unlimited pot of money, revenue-hungry schools rushed to launch new master’s programs–some, in retrospect, of dubious value.—
Fiona Riley,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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In retrospect, this chain of promises looks like a watershed moment in Trump’s evolution from builder to entertainer to pitchman to political entrepreneur.—
David D. Kirkpatrick,
New Yorker,
11 Aug. 2025
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But recent inspections at Boar’s Head sites in three states documented sanitation problems similar to those that led to the listeria contamination that killed 10 people and sickened dozens.—
Jonel Aleccia,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Aug. 2025
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In case of doubt, competent authorities may carry out random on-site inspections of cybersecurity standards in the companies, for which the management can be held liable.—
Dennis-Kenji Kipker,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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In her 2008 book, Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War 1 to 9/11, the historian Kathryn Olmsted argues that selective opacity is one of the key reasons that Americans distrust their government.—
Kaitlyn Tiffany,
The Atlantic,
7 Aug. 2025
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Osman’s book has become a classic among British crime thrillers.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Aug. 2025
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Crime is on a steady decline across the board over the past 18 months in Oakland, where city leaders previously had struggled to fend off conservative critiques of a spike in violence and burglaries during the COVID-19 pandemic.—
Shomik Mukherjee,
Mercury News,
12 Aug. 2025
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Another critique is known as elicitation: the hypothesis that reinforcement learning doesn’t actually endow AI models with greater intelligence but rather just elicits capabilities that the base model already possessed.—
Rob Toews,
Forbes.com,
10 Aug. 2025
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Earlier this month, permission was granted for minor internal and external alterations at the property, PA reported, citing redacted planning applications lodged with the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead.—
Billy Stockwell,
CNN Money,
17 Aug. 2025
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Recent regulatory alterations under the Trump Administration, which are generally viewed as detrimental for the automotive industry, might actually benefit Tesla.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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Investors should revisit the outlook for holdings with direct and indirect exposure to China, looking for relative winners and losers in a decoupling between the U.S. and China.—
Daniel Kern,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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Once a quarter, revisit the decisions that didn’t work.—
Stephanie Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
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Last year, the FAA's leadership under the Biden administration established a committee to examine the shortcomings of Part 450.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
14 Aug. 2025
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This would allow the team to examine offset sediment layers and date past quakes, providing a clearer picture of the fault's recurrence rate.—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
14 Aug. 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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