in retrospect

English

Prepositional phrase

in retrospect

When looked back upon as a past event; as can be seen now, but not at the time.
Trying to expand the business into the Middle East was doomed to failure. In retrospect, we shouldn't have bothered.

Translations

as can be seen now but was not seen at the outset

Arabic: فِي وَقْت لَاحِق‎ (fī waqt lāḥiq)
Czech: zpětně viděno
Danish: set i bakspejlet, i retrospekt
German: rückblickend (de), zurückblickend (de)
Greek: εκ των υστέρων (el) (ek ton ystéron)
Hebrew: בדיעבד‎ (he) (bedi'avád)

Icelandic: þegar litið er til baka, eftir á að hyggja
Norwegian:
Bokmål: i ettertid

Nynorsk: i ettertid

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