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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
Alex Schwartz, The Conversation, 29 May 2026
Videos of the arrest garnered millions of views online and sparked outrage — and an internal review of Chambers’ use of force.
—Rose Evans
updated May 29, Idaho Statesman, 29 May 2026
Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 6 June 2026
That building costs the Forest Service $1 million a year in rent, documents reviewed by NPR show.
—Chiara Eisner, NPR, 6 June 2026
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Noun
Many of the 56 provisions in the wide-ranging bill are regulatory in nature, such as streamlining environmental impact reviews and reducing the frequency of inspections for homes with tenants receiving federal rental assistance.
—Alex Schwartz, The Conversation, 29 May 2026
Videos of the arrest garnered millions of views online and sparked outrage — and an internal review of Chambers’ use of force.
—Rose Evans
updated May 29, Idaho Statesman, 29 May 2026
Verb
Rapid bursts of gunfire sent festivalgoers screaming and running for cover between golf carts and food trucks in the city’s historic district, video reviewed by CNN shows.
—Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 6 June 2026
That building costs the Forest Service $1 million a year in rent, documents reviewed by NPR show.
—Chiara Eisner, NPR, 6 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for review
Noun
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Legacy is not only about economic results or what others say about us in retrospect.—
Robert Pearl,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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All that business about Xander acting as a therapy bot for veterans turned out, in retrospect, to be Carl’s personal beta testing for the much more lucrative application of assisting future veterans in bombing targets from the air.—
Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
24 May 2026
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Officials said the facility would have to undergo a follow-up inspection on June 5.—
Tim Fang,
CBS News,
3 June 2026
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The report was produced after an unannounced inspection by the DHS inspector general, whose office recently got an infusion of $20 million and plans to boost its inspections from four to six per year to potentially as many as 40 to 60.—
Laura Strickler,
NBC news,
3 June 2026
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His debut novel The Beast was a 2017 Spectator book of the year; his second novel, We Germans, was published in 2020 and translated into six languages.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2026
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Perhaps in imitation of the former occupant—known only through the photographs, books, textiles, and trinkets covering the walls and the floor—Liden sits topless at a piano.—
Erika Landström,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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During the latest installment of the competition, Hollywood playfully called out Leith for a notably harsh critique of one of the contestant's culinary confections.—
Stacy Lambe,
PEOPLE,
29 May 2026
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There are acid critiques of settler colonialism alongside tributes to the majesty of the American landscape, sober revisitations of enslavement alongside hopeful pleas for liberation, bitter denouncements of intervention in wars abroad alongside quaint homages to homespun Americanness.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
28 May 2026
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Unlike existing approaches that rely on a small number of biomarkers, MutationProjector analyzes the broader combination of genetic alterations present in a tumor.—
Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 June 2026
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Those moves led to major postseason alterations.—
Scott Dochterman,
New York Times,
1 June 2026
Verb
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The Yogurt Shop Murders, which premiered last summer, revisited the 1991 killings of four teenage girls inside a local frozen yogurt shop that sent shockwaves through the community for years as the investigation dragged on.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
6 June 2026
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The debate, now revisited in a new memoir and recent interviews by former first lady Jill Biden, continues to shape the public narrative around Biden's final year in office.—
James Powel,
USA Today,
5 June 2026
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Point guard Jalen Brunson has returned to sitting on the Knicks' bench since his knee was examined in the team's locker room.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
4 June 2026
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The cost of silence First, the researchers examined direct defenses—the chemical and physical changes the plant undergoes to make its leaves less palatable for caterpillars and thus hamper their growth.—
Jacek Krywko,
ArsTechnica,
3 June 2026
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Frisell will turn 75 on March 18, midway through his current tour, and retrospection is a constant throughout In My Dreams.—
Archie Forde,
Pitchfork,
6 Mar. 2026
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The system also supports global retrospection.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Feb. 2026
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