Words similar to afterthought

Example sentences for: afterthought

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The encyclopedic sizzle, packed into the back of the book, seems an (unfortunate) afterthought, imitative of a similarly constituted edition of the Collins English Dictionary , and quite sloppily put together at that.
"Medicare cannot be an afterthought," said Gore.
But Degas came around to photography as a sort of afterthought.
There remains a great deal of skepticism in the media about whether Viacom can get its price, but S & S's educational and professional divisions are the largest in the world, and the divisions have done adequately under a company for which they were but an afterthought.
The gold plating, an afterthought, was added in the Qing Dynasty.