afterthought
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The process of turning crude into the products actually used to keep the modern world moving is almost an afterthought.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
In 2013, the Women's World Cup was barely an afterthought.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
America needs policies that favor U.S. cattle and ranchers — instead of treating them as an afterthought.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
Claiming that Rubio is “just an earnestly funny person” and as an afterthought adding, “JD was spectacular.”
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
They were filled with storage space—living quarters were almost an afterthought.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
The viewer’s in for an unexpected twist, too, seeing as all of these characters but Rachel will soon be afterthoughts, tossed aside to maintain a constant laser focus on Marty’s hijinks.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2025
While most teams have historically treated these set pieces as afterthoughts, Arsenal has turned them into a hack—and then turned that hack into its whole identity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025
Following his death, some wondered if he had wound up in a rough-and-tumble league where skill and technique are afterthoughts.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2023
Baltimore prevailed in a brutally tough division that relegated the Red Sox and New York Yankees to afterthoughts.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 28, 2023
He ate hot eggs, warm bread, reveled in steaming tea, although the water from which the tea was made left an aftertaste in the mouth, afterthoughts in the brain: from what nearby bam?
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
Vocabulary lists containing afterthought
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
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I Can Make This Promise
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