second thought
Example Sentences
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A 20-year-old has decades of that long run ahead, and should be almost entirely in stocks without a second thought about short-term swings.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
It is in these jargon-rich, usually quiet meetings where so many data centers are approved without second thought.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
But for Fatima, a 36-year-old German housewife travelling with her family, "there was no second thought" about coming to Mecca, Islam's holiest city.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
He told his parents he had noticed an identical one on the bar, picked it up and put it in his pocket without a second thought - not realising it belonged to somebody else.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
It was so close to me that I could reach it by hardly extending my arm, which is what I did without a second thought.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
