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afterthought

[af-ter-thawt, ahf-] / ˈæf tərˌθɔt, ˈɑf- /
NOUN
idea that occurs after it is timely
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Dear Amy: Wow, you really missed the mark to "Family Afterthought," who was having a milestone birthday on Thanksgiving this year and wanted to finally have a birthday and not share it with a holiday.

From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2021

To Sell Apartments, Furnishing Is No Afterthought It wasn’t just the swinging chair, strung from the ceiling, that was distracting.

From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2010

A Negro community group from Chicago's South Side tells the Christmas story in original contemporary soul music in "Time Is Running Out: An Afterthought to Christmas," a swinging look at the season.

From Time Magazine Archive

Afterthought," in which he said: "And I too talk, and lose the touch I talk of.

From The History of "Punch" by Spielmann, M. H. (Marion Harry)

The prefatory "Afterthought" mentioned may be found, only if stuck in some of the copies of the volume—doubtless by quick and clumsy after-pastings.

From The Square of Sevens An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note by Prime-Stevenson, Edward




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