Antonyms for retrospectivelyret·ro·spec·tive·ly

Princeton's WordNet

1. retrospectivelyadverb

   in a manner contemplative of past events

   "retrospectively, he seems like a great artist"

How to use retrospectively in a sentence?

1. Holly Prigerson:

   The study is novel in that it evaluates retrospectively the depressive symptom severity of patients within 24 hours of death, i ’m unaware of any other study that has attempted this.

2. Sami Sarkamies:

   Samsung has been paying Nokia probably 100 million per year, and the rate could now come up to around 300 million euros (per year). The settled rate will also be paid retrospectively for the last two years, but they have already booked perhaps 100 million a year from Samsung to their income statement, so the EBIT impact for this year could be around 700 million euros.

3. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson:

   We are bringing forward legislation to stop the system of automatic early release. The difficulty is how to apply retrospectively to the cohort of people who currently qualify, it is time to take action to ensure, irrespective of the law we are bringing in, people in the current stream dont qualify automatically for early release.

4. Meg Selby:

   It kind of just feels like it's all been taken from you, to not really have anything to show for it now is hard, and I, retrospectively, wish I had more pictures.

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