as in review
a usually critical look at a past event
teachers are undertaking a reappraisal of the current grading system, as the consensus is that A's have been given out too easily of late
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Recent Examples of reappraisal
After news broke that Carter had entered hospice, writer and GOP political consultant Stuart Stevens was one of many offering public reappraisals of the former president.
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Mark Barabak, The Mercury News, 1 Jan. 2025
Regular Self-Reflection: Encourage leaders to assess their own emotional triggers and develop personal reappraisal habits for better anger management.
—Scott Hutcheson, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
Al Jolson, Miles Davis, and even Leonard Bernstein have streets co-named for them and have gone through varying degrees of cultural reappraisal ranging from messy bisexual (Bernstein) to appearing in blackface (Jolson) to allegations of spousal abuse (Davis).
—Fran Hoepfner, Curbed, 31 Dec. 2024
This positive reappraisal, however, hasn’t extended to health care policy.
—Guian McKee / Made By History, TIME, 29 Dec. 2024
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Mark Barabak, The Mercury News, 1 Jan. 2025
Regular Self-Reflection: Encourage leaders to assess their own emotional triggers and develop personal reappraisal habits for better anger management.
—Scott Hutcheson, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
Al Jolson, Miles Davis, and even Leonard Bernstein have streets co-named for them and have gone through varying degrees of cultural reappraisal ranging from messy bisexual (Bernstein) to appearing in blackface (Jolson) to allegations of spousal abuse (Davis).
—Fran Hoepfner, Curbed, 31 Dec. 2024
This positive reappraisal, however, hasn’t extended to health care policy.
—Guian McKee / Made By History, TIME, 29 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reappraisal
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The latest fashion news, beauty coverage, celebrity style, fashion week updates, culture reviews, and videos on Vogue.com.—
Lilah Ramzi,
Vogue,
11 Feb. 2025
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Sign up for Entertainment Weekly's free newsletter to get the latest trailers, celebrity interviews, film reviews, and more.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
11 Feb. 2025
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For the title character of the low-key charmer Olmo, those roadblocks shape a day of pivotal reversals and revelations, life-changing in the moment, perhaps, but especially in retrospect.—
Sheri Linden,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 Feb. 2025
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In retrospect, had this move not gone well, Olise’s failure would have been used to fuel one of those executive-level melodramas Bayern have historically had to endure.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
The Athletic,
14 Feb. 2025
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The discoveries may force a reexamination of galaxy evolution.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Jan. 2025
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The Simpsons’s 2020s Renaissance has been defined by bigger swings, higher concepts, trolling, near complete disregard for canon, and a reexamination, if not deconstruction, of the show’s character: All of these elements are operating at a maximum for this modern masterpiece.—
Jesse David Fox,
Vulture,
17 Dec. 2024
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Every intervention, rereading, and retrospection by Jameson is about the present and the wish to shape the future.—
Mark Greif,
Harper's Magazine,
26 July 2024
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Nila’s fuzzy retrospection is especially frustrating in moments featuring her toxic relationship with Marlowe.—
Jasmine Vojdani,
Vulture,
13 Jan. 2025
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“Reappraisal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reappraisal. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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