Originally Posted By: Coffeebean
Hi everyone ~
I read the following sentence in an article, and cringed.

"Wyman is pictured with then husband Ronald Reagan in 1941."

I know the sentence could have been written to say "her husband at the time..." but is there a word or phrase for that?

I'm drawing a blank...


I can see cringing when reading about Ronald Reagan, but the construction you mention seems to me to be perfectly ordinary if not all that common. Are you looking for a word that describes that sort of construction?