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retrodict

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Retrodict (verb) means to try to work out what happened in the past by looking at how things are now.

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To try to work out what happened in the past by looking at how things are now.

"Many are impressed by the fact that climate models can "retrodict" climatic change—that is, use past climatic data (say, from the 1860s) to predict climatic data from the less-distant past (say, from the 1920s). They should not be." — Jamie Whyte, The Wall Street Journal (2013)

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