1. understanding of a situation or event only after it has happened or developed

Examples

• In hindsight, I should have studied harder for the exam.
• With hindsight, we can see that the warning signs were there all along.
• Hindsight is 20/20, as they say.
• Looking back with hindsight, the decision seems obvious now.
• She realized in hindsight that she had made the right choice.
• The coach admitted in hindsight that he should have made different substitutions.
• Hindsight revealed several mistakes in their original plan.