look back
phrasal verblook back (at something)
- to look again at something that you read or wrote earlier, in order to remind yourself what it said
- Look back at your notes and summarize what you have learned.
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look back (at/on something)
- to think about something in the past synonym reflect
- to look back on your childhood
- They look back at the 1970s as the good old days.