Frank Deford

It was not that long ago when the accepted wisdom in football was that the running game had to be established - that was always the obligatory verb: established - before passes could become effective. My, we know how that has changed. Now the pass is established from the get-go, and running is an afterthought.

American Writer

Samin Nosrat

It's easy to discount water's importance in the kitchen. After all, it has no flavor, and more often than not, it's left off ingredient lists, making it seem like an afterthought. Yet water is an essential element of almost everything we cook and eat, and it affects the flavor and texture of all our food.

American Chef

Luvvie Ajayi

Through my school years, I learned more about slavery, anti-black racism, and oppression in the U.S., and my blackness could no longer be an afterthought. I started wearing it proudly, and as my consciousness deepened, so did my love for black folks.

Nigerian Author

Benjamin Tucker

Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction.

American Activist

Tom Malinowski

The advancement of democracy and human rights is as serious a business as anything we do in our foreign policy and cannot be treated as an afterthought in our relations with great powers.

Zephyr Teachout

Women's voices need to be in politics, and shaping politics from the very beginning, not serve as an afterthought.

American Lawyer

Bernard Malamud

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

American Novelist

Melvin Van Peebles

Before me, music soundtracks were sort of afterthoughts.

American Actor

Nick Price

The technology backbone is no longer an afterthought.

Zimbabwean Golfer

Norman Cousins

American Author

Use 'afterthought' to indicate a casual, sometimes unimportant, addition to a conversation or text.

Casual Additions

'Afterthought' can express a sudden realization that comes after the main event or decision.

Sudden Realization

'Afterthought' often suggests that something is not a priority and was considered only later.

Non-priority

Indicates a thought or action that is secondary and not the main focus.

Secondary Importance

Shows reconsideration or change of heart after an initial decision.

Change of Heart

Used when someone has additional insight or ideas after making a decision or conclusion.

Post-Decision Insight

 with the fusion energy. When you make fusion, the energy comes out as neutrons, fast neutrons comes out of the plasma. Those neutrons hit the wall of the machine. It damages it. And also, you have to catch the heat from those neutrons and run some steam to spin a turbine somewhere, and on those machines, it was all a bit of an afterthought.

Michel Laberge: How...

 It was going to be totally traditional. He would pay people money because he was feeling like a good guy, and the money would go to the people and they would write the articles. The wiki was introduced so others could make suggestions on edits -- as almost an afterthought, a back room.

Jonathan Zittrain: The...

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 as the environments we've known become more punishing towards us. And whether you have children or not, we need to be honest about what is happening, and what we owe one another. We cannot afford to treat the psychological impacts of climate change as some afterthought,

How climate change...

 Tell us, is this reading your thoughts, will it in five years, is there a weaponized version of this, what does it look like? So our first design principle, before we started working on this, was to not render ethics as an afterthought.

How AI could become an...

 And finally, why we code matters. We've used tools of computational creation to unlock immense wealth. We now have the opportunity to unlock even greater equality if we make social change a priority and not an afterthought.

How I'm fighting bias in...

 i was suddenly covering that from washington dc i mean i remember i was living in the suburbs of dc and driving in while everyone else in the city was driving out and then i was sent kind of as an afterthought to cover the

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 Yet the pearl-producing towns of Zhejiang and places in rural Indiana, where online pearl parties flourish, they don't just exist as an afterthought, waiting to become cities one day. As online pearl parties show,

Why Entrepreneurship...

 is to no longer be an afterthought. We don't want to continue to try to, like, look at the next 100 years and be granted, grudgingly, small legal rights and accommodations. We simply want true and full equality.

The political progress...

 yeah the only thing chemical philosophy and the afterthought well only about meaning to use very only honor of stopping him hunting and shooting let's now go back to the other life before