afterthought
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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
"I always begin," said Ethelinda Afterthought, "with a study."
From Frenzied Fiction by Leacock, Stephen
Afterthought, aft′ėr-thawt, n. thought or reflection after an action: a later thought.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Vocabulary lists containing afterthought
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
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I Can Make This Promise
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