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Updated: October 10, 2023

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	adjective • concerned with or related to the past noun • an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work
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	adverb • after the fact
	41%	11		Backward-looking
	noun • an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism adjective satellite • opposed to political or social liberalism or reform

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New York Times03 Jan 1985	Across 49
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