Crossword-Solution: HINDSIGHT
We have 21 clues for the answer “HINDSIGHT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Opposite of prescience. | 1 answer |
| understanding the nature of an event after it has happened | 1 answer |
| Wisdom after the event | 1 answer |
| Too-late understanding | 1 answer |
| Second-guessing | 1 answer |
| Second-guesser's forte | 1 answer |
| Perfect vantage point? | 1 answer |
| Perception of nature of an event after it has happened: Humorous. | 1 answer |
| Monday-morning quarterbacking, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Monday-morning quarterbacking | 1 answer |
| Monday morning quarterbacking | 1 answer |
| It's always 20-20 | 1 answer |
| It may be 20-20 | 1 answer |
| 20-20 ability? | 1 answer |
| "___ is 20/20" | 1 answer |
| flashback | 2 answers |
| Retrospect | 3 answers |
| looking back | 6 answers |
| remembrance | 29 answers |
| retrospection | 29 answers |
| Knowledge | 62 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HINDSIGHT (5)
With cases of 20-20 hindsight proliferating, security experts claim that we should have seen it coming.
And those men of marvellous hindsight who are today seeking to preach the Negro back to the present peonage of the soil know well, or ought to know, that the opportunity of binding the Negro peasant willingly to the soil was lost on that day when the Commissioner of the Freedmen’s Bureau had to go to South Carolina and tell the weeping freedmen, after their years of toil, that their land was not theirs, that there was a mistake—somewhere.
Leete, "the set of the current was perfectly perceptible if you had but taken pains to observe it, and it was not toward the rocks, but toward a deeper channel." "We had a popular proverb," I replied, "that 'hindsight is better than foresight,' the force of which I shall now, no doubt, appreciate more fully than ever.
Their trust in America's insight, foresight and sagacious hindsight has been shattered by American strategic mistakes, intelligence errors, diplomatic gaffes and internal squabbling in a poll-orientated administration.
She reviewed her conduct and felt that she had no reason to reproach herself for not having made an earlier beginning in what she now saw should have been her tactics with her "wild man." How could she, inexpert, foresee what was mockingly obvious to hindsight? Only by experiment and failure is the art of success learned.
Quotes with HINDSIGHT (3)
In hindsight, events seem logical
Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn to gall when our partner is revealed to have had a lover all those years? Because such a situation makes it impossible to be happy? But we were happy! Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily. Because happiness is only real if it lasts forever? Because things always end painfully if they conta…
Hindsight, I think, is a useless tool. We, each of us, are at a place in our lives because of innumerable circumstances, and we, each of us, have a responsibility (if we do not like where we are) to move along life's road, to find a better path if this one does not suit, or to walk happily along this one if it is indeed our life's way. Changing even the bad things that have gone before would fundamentally change who we are, and whether or not that would be a good thing, I bel…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1948–2022).