backward-looking

adjective

disapproving

: relating to the past : old-fashioned

backward-looking ideas/plans

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The dessert menu is just as backward-looking (or, more generously, classic-minded) as the savory offerings: cheesecake with a swash of berry sauce, dark chocolate pot de crème. —Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 30 June 2024

Regulators often insist on the use of backward-looking data, prohibiting the use of climate models and climate-aware catastrophe models. —Alena Botros, Fortune, 26 June 2024

Biden also needs to be more forward- than backward-looking. —E.j. Dionne Jr., Washington Post, 23 June 2024

Name Withheld From the Ethicist: The usual rationale for punishment is some combination of retribution, which is a backward-looking consideration, and deterrence, which is a forward-looking one. —Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 12 June 2024

The new, endearingly backward-looking X-Men ’97 understands what now-adult viewers of the classic cartoon want, which is very little change. —Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2024

That’s above the S&P 500’s average forward P/E ratio of 20, but definitely not as outlandish as the backward-looking figure. —Will Daniel, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2023

The Trump Organization is accused of using forward-looking income figures, which were higher, combined with backward-looking expense figures, which were lower, resulting in an inflation of at least $37 million, according to the lawsuit. —Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023

At issue in an expanding worker strike against major U.S.-based automakers are two visions of the future: one forward-looking that emphasizes innovation, one backward-looking that emphasizes fairness. —Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Sep. 2023