afterthoughts

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The scorn and loathing of our afterthoughts --

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  • Uncle Wisi took care of the solos but the adjutant expressed introductions and afterthoughts, always in the right intervals and never losing a beat. —  The Streetbird - van de Wetering, Janwillem - Grijpstra-de Gier 09
  • Mahnmut glanced at the spherical fusion engines, clipped onto the prow like design afterthoughts, and checked the time—one hour and four minutes until ignition. —  Dan Simmons - Hockenberry 1 - Ilium
  • He got people aside and probed for their afterthoughts. —  AnalogSFF,July-August2008
  • Plenty of restaurants scattered across town sell crêpes as afterthoughts or as true badges of pedigree (Chez Nous and La Madeleine jump to mind, along with Blu Cafe, Buenos Aires II and a handful of Vietnamese spots), but the places in this story put crêpes first. —  Austin360 - XL Headlines
  • House salads ain't rocket science, yet they're so often afterthoughts-a loose bit of greens and garden things to fill a menu slot with no sense of the house in them. —  Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
 

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