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Verb

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lookback (third-person singular simple presentlooks back,present participlelooking back,simple past and past participlelooked back)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seelook,‎back.
  2. To think of (past events) in retrospect.
    When Ilook back at my summer holidays as a child, I smile.
    • 1985, Brian Allen, Sheron Alton,Jim Vallance, “What About Love”, inHeart[1], performed byHeart:
      I can't tell you what you're feelin' inside / And I can't sell you what you don't want to buy / Something's missing, you got tolook back on your life / You know something here just ain't right
    • 2012 May 13, Alistair Magowan, “Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd”, inBBC Sport[2]:
      United were made to pay for letting an eight-point lead as little as five weeks ago slip and, despite their final-day efforts, they willlook back on a season where, when they needed to step up, they fell flat.
    • 2023 February 8, Paul Stephen with Howard Smith, “Elizabeth Line: "It's not job done yet"”, inRAIL, number976, page35:
      For Crossrail 2, people on this project a few years ago hoped they would move directly on to that. "Obviously, politics and money haven't come together in the same way as they did for Crossrail 1, but I've said to the team that if youlook back at everything from HS1 and the Channel Tunnel, these things always happen... but the question is timing.[] "The Jubilee Line is another one. It seems very unlikely, with these transformational things, that people willlook back in a few decades' time and think we shouldn't have built it.
  3. (intransitive) Toreconsider orregret.
    You do what you have to do, and don'tlook back.

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Translations

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look behind oneself
reminisce about the past

Noun

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lookback (plurallook backs)

  1. Alternative form oflook-back

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