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.
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i think because people were registering retroactively
NYC Rent Guidelines Board · hear it here
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Retroactively, Mendel became the “father” of genetics.
CrashCourse · hear it here
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And so I retroactively made him a botanist.
Smithsonian Air & Space · hear it here
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to retroactively take actions to fix it are generally not feasible.
US National Archives · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of retroactively. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.