Meaning of hindsight in English
(Definition of hindsight from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
hindsight | American Dictionary
the ability to understand, after something has happened, why or how it was done and how it might have been done better:
Examples of hindsight
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With the benefit of hindsight, this is perhaps an obvious point.
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In hindsight, then, the consternation over the exactness of the register seemed somewhat misplaced, as the much expected massive turnout never occurred.
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With hindsight, we would recommend exactly the opposite.
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Because, as 20/20 hindsight makes so clear, people have certain unreasonable fears about anything that smacks of somebody tampering with their food.
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When people attempt to reconstruct their original judgment, they access the updated knowledge base, opening the door to hindsight bias.
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With hindsight, the 1970s was a decade of 'superstitious learning'.
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This was not for lack of interest, but for principled reasons that are now apparent in hindsight and are discussed below.
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Rather, these oppositions have come to be equated only with hindsight.
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All the failures so well documented in this book seem avoidable with the clear vision of hindsight.
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With hindsight, all these efforts were of little avail.
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The prolonged recovery group comprised mostly individuals with schizophrenia\schizophreniform disorder and, in hindsight, this needed to be taken into account.
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First, by beginning with the results of the collapse and working back to the causes, one gains the perspective of hindsight to the issues.
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Although the observed correlations may seem obvious in hindsight, such a relationship could not necessarily be anticipated.
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Clearly this solution is language-dependent; with hindsight it is not all necessary.
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But the sense of explanatory satisfaction one gets with such a model is too often a reflection of hindsight bias.
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geriye bakarak değerlendirme, sonradan farkedip anlama, sonradan farketme…
discernement [masculine] rétrospectif, recul…
後知恵（あとぢえ）…
wijsheid achteraf…
dodatečná moudrost…
bagklogskab, set i bakspejlet…
renungan…
ความเข้าใจในเหตุการณ์ที่เกิดขึ้น…
sự nhận thức sau…
wiedza po fakcie, spóźniona nauka, ‘mądrość po szkodzie‘…
efterklokhet…
pengalaman yg lalu…
späte Einsicht…
etterpåklokskap [masculine], etterpåklokskap…
розмірковування заднім числом…
суждение задним числом…
