ex post

American  

[eks pohst] / ɛks ˈpoʊst /

adjective

1. based on analysis of past performance (ex ante ).

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Etymology

Origin of ex post

1635–45; < Latin: from (what lies) behind, according to (what lies) behind

Example Sentences

The issue is not just to admit, ex post facto, that we were wrong, but to think more deeply about why we were wrong.

From Salon

But it was only when Adams encouraged Smith of the Los Angeles Philharmonic to take a look at the score, and Mattingly began to send along recorded clips, that “Stranger Love,” long finished, was ex post facto commissioned by the Philharmonic for a staged production.

From New York Times

“This is a violation of the ex post facto clause of the constitution,” said Neama Rahmani, president of West Coast Trial Lawyers.

From Washington Times

As for the claim of ex post facto justice, Robert Jackson — the American prosecutor who believed aggression enabled all the other war crimes that followed — summed up the charge:

From Salon

"A greater ex ante national ownership of the design of fiscal trajectories could be balanced by a stronger ex post enforcement at EU level," he said.

From Reuters