backward-looking
adjective
disapproving
: relating to the past : old-fashioned
backward-looking ideas/plans
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The Spider-Verse movies are brilliant and Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is just fun — one an exercise in pushing the medium forward, the other a backward-looking piece of nostalgia.
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Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Jan. 2025
What’s more, California law prohibited insurers from forecasting risk into the future, relying solely on backward-looking analyses of natural disasters and other factors that would drive insurance payouts.
—Andrea Riquier, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2025
The state forced insurers to only use backward-looking estimates of risk.
—Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 23 Jan. 2025
Compare that with economic data releases, which are generally backward-looking in nature, often by a month or more.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 21 Jan. 2025
Freud was the proponent of etiology, a backward-looking theory that ascribes our behavior today to our shaping and forming early in life.
—Tim Maurer, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
Mortgage rates rebounded following the Fed’s rate announcement on Wednesday, and investors are going to be far more focused on figuring out what that means for home sales and affordability going forward than what’s in this backward-looking release.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 22 Dec. 2024
Which is why performance management needs to move from a backward-looking evaluation process to a forward-thinking tool.
—Nirit Cohen, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
This can shift the focus of reviews from being 70% to 80% backward-looking to 70% to 80% forward-looking, highlighting risks and opportunities.
—Ruchir Nath, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
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Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Jan. 2025
What’s more, California law prohibited insurers from forecasting risk into the future, relying solely on backward-looking analyses of natural disasters and other factors that would drive insurance payouts.
—Andrea Riquier, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2025
The state forced insurers to only use backward-looking estimates of risk.
—Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 23 Jan. 2025
Compare that with economic data releases, which are generally backward-looking in nature, often by a month or more.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 21 Jan. 2025
Freud was the proponent of etiology, a backward-looking theory that ascribes our behavior today to our shaping and forming early in life.
—Tim Maurer, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
Mortgage rates rebounded following the Fed’s rate announcement on Wednesday, and investors are going to be far more focused on figuring out what that means for home sales and affordability going forward than what’s in this backward-looking release.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 22 Dec. 2024
Which is why performance management needs to move from a backward-looking evaluation process to a forward-thinking tool.
—Nirit Cohen, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
This can shift the focus of reviews from being 70% to 80% backward-looking to 70% to 80% forward-looking, highlighting risks and opportunities.
—Ruchir Nath, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
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“Backward-looking.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/backward-looking. Accessed 7 Feb. 2025.
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