Meaning & use
looking back
Reflecting on or reconsidering past events, often with new understanding or feeling.
See it in a sentence
Looking back, I realize how much I learned from that difficult year.
Looking back on their childhood, the sisters laughed at their old arguments.
A note on using this word
This phrase often opens a sentence to signal that the speaker is evaluating the past from a present-day perspective.
Words with a similar meaning
in retrospectreflecting
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