Retroactive

An epitaph is an inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

Retroactive jealousy is more toxic than reactive jealousy.

Our company is in the process of removing non-inclusive language from our current documentation. Please note that retroactive changes are not always possible, and some non-inclusive language may remain in older documentation.

Rather, he hoped there was some legal trickeration he could deploy to get a retroactive water right filed and end-run the opposition.

Can such a child be ennobled by the passage of time, his struggles granted retroactive gravitas and his childish confusions rearticulated with adult clarity?

Such assumptions can motivate expressions of cisgenderism such as retroactive misgendering (in which a person's past is described using language that disregards or contrasts with their current designation of their gender) […]