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Recent Examples of backward-looking
Resume metrics are backward-looking and try to measure a team’s accomplishments.
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Jim Root, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025
As wildfires became more frequent and more severe in the past few years, California regulators realized that the backward-looking model was no longer assessing the risk faced by homeowners and property insurers correctly.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
The Spider-Verse movies are brilliant and Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is just fun — one an exercise in pushing the medium forward, the other a backward-looking piece of nostalgia.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Jan. 2025
What’s more, California law prohibited insurers from forecasting risk into the future, relying solely on backward-looking analyses of natural disasters and other factors that would drive insurance payouts.
—Andrea Riquier, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2025
The state forced insurers to only use backward-looking estimates of risk.
—Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 23 Jan. 2025
Compare that with economic data releases, which are generally backward-looking in nature, often by a month or more.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 21 Jan. 2025
Freud was the proponent of etiology, a backward-looking theory that ascribes our behavior today to our shaping and forming early in life.
—Tim Maurer, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
Mortgage rates rebounded following the Fed’s rate announcement on Wednesday, and investors are going to be far more focused on figuring out what that means for home sales and affordability going forward than what’s in this backward-looking release.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 22 Dec. 2024
Jim Root, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025
As wildfires became more frequent and more severe in the past few years, California regulators realized that the backward-looking model was no longer assessing the risk faced by homeowners and property insurers correctly.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
The Spider-Verse movies are brilliant and Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is just fun — one an exercise in pushing the medium forward, the other a backward-looking piece of nostalgia.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Jan. 2025
What’s more, California law prohibited insurers from forecasting risk into the future, relying solely on backward-looking analyses of natural disasters and other factors that would drive insurance payouts.
—Andrea Riquier, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2025
The state forced insurers to only use backward-looking estimates of risk.
—Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 23 Jan. 2025
Compare that with economic data releases, which are generally backward-looking in nature, often by a month or more.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 21 Jan. 2025
Freud was the proponent of etiology, a backward-looking theory that ascribes our behavior today to our shaping and forming early in life.
—Tim Maurer, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
Mortgage rates rebounded following the Fed’s rate announcement on Wednesday, and investors are going to be far more focused on figuring out what that means for home sales and affordability going forward than what’s in this backward-looking release.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 22 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for backward-looking
Adjective
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These recent dual looks incorporate Rae’s more wacky sartorial leanings too: A chaotic hodge podge of nostalgic colors and shapes, with kitschy graphics and accessories.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
7 Feb. 2025
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The crowd-pleaser was seriously nostalgic, packed with references to the original film, such as a cameo from Val Kilmer's Iceman and, yep, that famous beach volleyball scene filled with suntans, sunglasses, and abs for days.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
EW.com,
7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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In recent years, Faithfull and her body of work have caught a retrospective eye; Broken English was given a deluxe reissue in 2013, and a biopic, directed by Ian Bonhôte and starring Lucy Boynton as Faithfull, has been in the works for several years.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
30 Jan. 2025
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While details for October are still under wraps, there will be a retrospective exhibition on the festival’s four decades, curated by a team led by Emilie Hammen, professor at the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and the Institut Français de la Mode.—
Lily Templeton,
WWD,
29 Jan. 2025
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The performance balanced minimalism and surrealism, offering a glimpse into the darker, more introspective aesthetic underpinning Hurry Up Tomorrow.—
Jessica Lynch,
Billboard,
31 Jan. 2025
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Carmelo, who could incorporate a moment or two of introspective reflection in her uncompromisingly ferocious portrayal, will travel with the rest of the cast to Washington, D.C. Bean’s Tom bristles at the way Wynona plays the race card.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The society of the time – the Greeks, Romans, Jews – preferred to see things in an intellectual or philosophical light.—
Gordon Pennertz,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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As vaccine hesitancy spreads, as states allow for religious or philosophical vaccine exemptions, and as vaccine mandates are removed, more unvaccinated children have become susceptible.—
Dr. Eve Meltzer Krief,
New York Daily News,
29 Jan. 2025
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For all you analytic freaks look at how many more shots St. John’s took that ‘Nova, look at how many more offensive rebounds.—
Jim Root,
The Athletic,
13 Feb. 2025
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The intimacy in Akerman’s film is a matter of structural poetry, of analytic rapture.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
11 Feb. 2025
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“Backward-looking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backward-looking. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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