afterthought
Example Sentences
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The Trojans have become afterthoughts in a market they once owned, and they only have themselves to blame.
From Los Angeles Times
Cantor Fitzgerald, the former firm of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, has long been an afterthought on Wall Street.
And she knew it: For the rising star, persona came first, and reality was an afterthought.
As broadcast television audiences migrated to streaming, she took to the stage at Radio City Music Hall last year to tell advertisers that their brand messages were not an afterthought.
From Reuters
All other candidates, declared and potential, are distant afterthoughts in the race, for now.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
