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Synonyms for looking backward
look·ing back·ward
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looking backwardadjective
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retrospective
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The trans-Atlantic alliance is back, and we are not looking backward. We are looking forward, together.
When we look at these objects, we’re looking backward through time, we get to know more about the origins of the universe, which will tell us where our solar system is headed. As humans, we started out with the same elements as these stars.
You see, as progressives we're not interested in making our country anything again, we're not looking backward. We're looking to the future. We're interested in the future and making America better than it ever has been.
How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.
I was really surprised at how much criticism there was of literally the most popular, most recent two-term American president, we should be looking forward as a party more than we're looking backward. To the extent we are going to review President Obama's record, I think we should be highlighting some of its strengths rather than re-litigating some of the questions about it.
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