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given to or marked by reflection of the past
Her book takes a retrospective look at the actor's long and distinguished career.
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Recent Examples of retrospective
More than a retrospective, the installation interrogates the tension between Modernist ideals and today’s ecological realities, moving beyond industrial rationalism toward a wilder, more organic future.
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Natalie Stoclet, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
The speech that propelled the Red Scare hunts from Washington, DC, into Hollywood, the armed forces, universities, and libraries is annotated below with scholarship, both contemporaneous and retrospective, about McCarthy, the Red Scare and current threats to First Amendment rights.
—Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 24 Mar. 2025
In the process of making the project a preservation initiative by digitizing archival tapes, organizers of the retrospective discovered just how full an evening at EZTV could be, with performances, poetry, shorts, an in-house soap opera and two or more feature-length videos.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2025
Benglis has made a jewelry line for Loewe, and the cover of Anderson’s ten-year Loewe retrospective highlights not one of his own designs but a work of Hamilton’s—a vastly oversized pumpkin fashioned from leather and shot for the Loewe Fall/Winter 2022 campaign.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
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Natalie Stoclet, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
The speech that propelled the Red Scare hunts from Washington, DC, into Hollywood, the armed forces, universities, and libraries is annotated below with scholarship, both contemporaneous and retrospective, about McCarthy, the Red Scare and current threats to First Amendment rights.
—Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 24 Mar. 2025
In the process of making the project a preservation initiative by digitizing archival tapes, organizers of the retrospective discovered just how full an evening at EZTV could be, with performances, poetry, shorts, an in-house soap opera and two or more feature-length videos.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2025
Benglis has made a jewelry line for Loewe, and the cover of Anderson’s ten-year Loewe retrospective highlights not one of his own designs but a work of Hamilton’s—a vastly oversized pumpkin fashioned from leather and shot for the Loewe Fall/Winter 2022 campaign.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for retrospective
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From a tense two-hander and a teen heist movie to a NSFW alien tale and a philosophical road trip from Hell, these titles played well on the big screen and deserve releases to serve the masses.—
William Earl,
Variety,
9 Apr. 2025
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Books of advice come in many forms: financial, spiritual, physical, philosophical.—
Dwight Garner,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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Hinging on upbeat, nostalgic pop music that was popular during the global financial crash in the mid- to late-00s, the viral trend shows that from the purse to the playlist, concerns about a potential recession are everywhere.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Apr. 2025
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Audiences nostalgic for ‘90s spy thrillers could do worse.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Apr. 2025
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Aries rules your introspective 12th house of subconscious patterns and Jupiter’s lighting up your second house of finances and values, giving you the clarity to break free from old mental patterns that no longer serve you.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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By all accounts, Asha was an introspective and talented child who wore pigtails and loved basketball and spending time with her older brother, O’Bryant.—
Dianne Gallagher,
CNN Money,
27 Mar. 2025
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The breakthrough for me ... for the analytic people to consistently be able to measure where the ball's hitting each player's bat, and design bats specifically for each hitter, is just brilliant.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2025
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This means using advanced analytic insights to take a proactive approach to CX, where organizations use diagnostics, predictions, and prescriptions to manage the experiences of all customers rather than reacting to feedback from a small percentage who respond to surveys.—
Forrester,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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This is a complex matter requiring thoughtful consideration and a long-term perspective.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 2025
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The pair both showed up to their second date on the beach with thoughtful gifts and eventually shared their first kiss before Tyler met Madison's family.—
Glamour,
Glamour,
10 Apr. 2025
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Covering 80% of roof area on commercial buildings in the U.S. with solar reflective material would be the equivalent to turning off 34 coal power plants for one year.—
Rob Lewallen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 Apr. 2025
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The dining room on the floor below has deep red carpets, gold chairs, burl wood walls in a herringbone pattern and reflective metallic paint on the ceiling that intensifies the rotating 360 degree views.—
Laurie Werner,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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“Retrospective.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retrospective. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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