afterthought

The paper says the inquiry found ministers treated the sector "like an afterthought" during the pandemic, and then-Health Secretary Matt Hancock's claim that the government had placed a protective ring around care homes was unfounded.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

"Clinicians should treat adherence to GLP-1 treatment as an important outcome in its own right -- not an afterthought," Al-Aly said.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

They weren’t an afterthought; their interests were not considered at all.

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026

Players at the afterthought position have created a quiet but powerful information network and are leveraging it for big pay raises.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

These stairs were an afterthought in this curious old house.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

So these are not just sort of weird random afterthoughts or vestiges.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

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

Likewise, Kansas City reduced the 49ers to afterthoughts, searing for an organization that has five rings yet won its most recent 29 years ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

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

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