retroactively
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he will get paid retroactively
- What if, instead of retroactively dropping coverage, insurance companies work just as hard to retroactively raise premiums? While I think you're right to be skeptical, I doubt that .
- Defense lawyers justified their clients' abstentions by arguing that the Caramanlis government had prejudged their case by retroactively ruling the 1967 coup to be a criminal .
- Many say the amendment would not be applied retroactively, but even Sears concedes that's far from certain.