"retrospectoscope" meaning in English

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          "english": "fancy technological version of a crystal ball",
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          "text": "The view through the retrospectoscope is almost always clear, precise, and correct.",
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          "ref": "1991, Herbert L. Fred, Say Aah (hah)!: A Medical Educator Mouths Off:",
          "text": "Once we are proficient in using both the retrospectoscope and the prospectoscope, we are ready to use the perspectoscope—the scope that all patients deserve.",
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          "text": "1994, Virginia L. Miller, Molecular Genetics of Bacterial Pathogenesis: A Tribute to Stanley Falkow, Amer Society for Microbiology\nThe retrospectoscope is a marvelous instrument, particularly if it is supplied with rose-colored lenses. I cannot pretend to reconstruct objectively the events that affected my career."
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          "text": "Using the famous \"retrospectoscope\" technique, in which events of the past can be brought into sharper focus, one can sometimes identify the fear-inducing stimulus quite accurately in time and space.",
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          "ref": "2002, Jane Poulson, The Doctor Will Not See You Now, Novalis Press (CN)",
          "text": "I have also had to learn that just as the lens of the retrospectoscope provides false clarity, the lens of unbridled optimism distorts reality."
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