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look back
to think of or remember what has happened in the past. We raised three kids and worked full-time – sometimes I look back and wonder how we did it.
Usage notes: often used with at or on: Now we look back at the late 1940s as the good old days.
See also: back, look


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And the best time to do this, is to look back upon anger, when the fit is thoroughly over.
Even to look back at the past is horrible, for it contains sorrow that breaks my very heart at the thought of it.
It looks as if they were victims of a conspiracy; for the books they read, ideal by the necessity of selection, and the conversation of their elders, who look back upon the past through a rosy haze of forgetfulness, prepare them for an unreal life.
 
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