How to pronounce retroactively

Listen to retroactively in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.

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“retroactively” in real sentences

90 clips in the index · 29 American · 4 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.

  1. i think because people were registering retroactively

    NYC Rent Guidelines Board · hear it here

  2. Retroactively, Mendel became the “father” of genetics.

    CrashCourse · hear it here

  3. And so I retroactively made him a botanist.

    Smithsonian Air & Space · hear it here

  4. to retroactively take actions to fix it are generally not feasible.

    US National Archives · hear it here

Why real speech

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