in hindsight

Frequency: 8.015.2 per million words

Used when you understand an event or situation only after it has happened.

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Examples (10)

  • Their first idea was deemed, in hindsight, a mistake.
  • In hindsight, we should have taken a different route.
  • It's easy to say in hindsight that we should have invested more.
  • The decision, in hindsight, proved to be the correct one.
  • In hindsight, the warning signs were all there.
  • She realized, in hindsight, that she had been too naive.
  • We can always analyze past events in hindsight.
  • His earlier caution seemed unnecessary, but in hindsight, it was wise.
  • In hindsight, delaying the launch was the best course of action.
  • Much of what happened seems inevitable in hindsight.