afterthought
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Historically, chicken was a bit of an afterthought in fast food.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
Many now treat their nonalcoholic menus not as an afterthought but as another place to show creativity.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
Over the next 18 months, memory went from an afterthought to one of the AI boom’s biggest bottlenecks.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Ryan Fox entered the weekend at the British Open as an afterthought.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Then this afterthought: ‘They sure didn’t get their brains from us.’
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
So these are not just sort of weird random afterthoughts or vestiges.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
Those in-between spaces, so often treated as afterthoughts, became one of the emotional centers of his work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
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
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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