afterthought
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"If we want global biodiversity targets to mean something, tropical insects cannot remain an afterthought," Dr. Chowdhury said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
I watched a sixth-round afterthought — the 199th pick in the draft, a kid nobody had wanted on their team — walk onto the field and start rewriting what was possible.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
Historically, chicken was a bit of an afterthought in fast food.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 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
I turn at the last second, at the door, as if in afterthought.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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
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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