A cast or throw back.
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The act of distancing oneself from a previously supported idea, action, behaviour, etc.; a U-turn or flip-flop.
things past; retroactive, ex post facto.
A moment of self-audit where someone pauses to ask whether a plan, process, or decision is fundamentally backwards. Used online when calling out reversed priorities or upside-down logic before things go further wrong.
(UK, _, dialectal) To change retrospectively; reverse.
To identify the actions required in order to reach a proposed future.