Usually means: Predict past events using evidence.
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  1. retrodict: Merriam-Webster
  2. retrodict: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. retrodict: Collins English Dictionary
  4. retrodict: Wiktionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (retrodict)

▸ verb:  To attempt to estimate the previous state from the present.

Similar:
postdict, retrograde, backcast, repredict, backread, hindcast, backtrace, forereckon, prededuct, forecast, more...

Opposite:
predict, forecast, anticipate

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Similar:
postdict, retrograde, backcast, repredict, backread, hindcast, backtrace, forereckon, prededuct, forecast, more...

Opposite:
predict, forecast, anticipate



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