What does look back mean?

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look back

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. look back, look backwardverb

    look towards one's back

    "don't look back while you walk"

  2. review, look back, retrospectverb

    look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember

    "she reviewed her achievements with pride"

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  1. look back

    "Look back" generally refers to the act of reflecting, reviewing, or revisiting past events, experiences, or decisions. It can also refer to the comparison of a current situation with a similar one in the past. This term is often used in context of analyzing performance or progress over a certain period of time.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of look back in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of look back in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of look back in a Sentence

  1. Sam Woods:

    A striking feature of the Silicon Valley Bank run, though not so much of the Credit Suisse one, was the speed with which it took place, i do think we have to look back at these outflow rates … and ask what we have learned.

  2. David Hackney:

    If someone said to me 10 to 15 years down the road this would be a routine thing we'll be doing, that would be great and I don't even know that I'd be surprised. But you can also imagine that in 10 to 15 years, we'll look back and say what is that crazy thing we were doing.

  3. Adrian Shahbaz:

    History has shown that technologies and laws adopted during a crisis tend to stick around, as with 9/11, we will look back on COVID-19 as a moment when governments gained new, intrusive powers to control their populations.

  4. Jorge Piedrahita:

    We will look back at the election as the beginning of changes in Venezuela, the Chavistas will face tremendous political pressures because the (electoral) defeat could be the largest in their history.

  5. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

    I used to always think that I'd look back on us crying and laugh, but, I never thought I'd look back on us laughing and cry.

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