afterthought

Family structure should be a standard reporting category alongside race, poverty and disability—not an afterthought.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Treasury reversed course five years later as deficits instead widened, yet those bonds remain an afterthought.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

But its timing also made it feel like an afterthought, plonked into the calendar between the Women's T20 World Cup and The Hundred.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

"She lives with the fear that that might happen again, but she's speaking on behalf of all victims and survivors who feel that they are always an afterthought," Oliver said.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

“But perhaps some water,” she said in an afterthought; water would do no harm, would it?

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo

The sport was so closely woven into the fabric of Nordic culture that U.S. skiers knew they started every race as mere afterthoughts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 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

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

Baltimore prevailed in a brutally tough division that relegated the Red Sox and New York Yankees to afterthoughts.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 28, 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