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How to use the word Afterthought in a Sentence?

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Integrity is not an afterthought. Integrity is instinctual.

Ahavel Aborishade

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2 months ago

Integrity is not an afterthought. Integrity is instinctual.

Ahavel Aborishade

added by AAborishade
2 months ago

Integrity is not an afterthought. Integrity is instinctual.

Ahavel Aborishade

added by AAborishade
2 months ago

Integrity is not an afterthought. Integrity is instinctual.

Ahavel Aborishade

added by AAborishade
2 months ago

That can’t be a footnote; it can’t be an afterthought, i’m speaking specifically, directly to both GOP and Democratic politicians: Be mindful of the words that you use. Because the words you use can have real world impacts on the bodies of Asian American people on the streets.

Charles Jung

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You spend a lot of effort in onboarding and treating people well. But when it comes to offboarding it’s almost an afterthought, you want your employees who are exiting to say, ‘I really enjoyed the years I’ve given to the organization.

Raymond Lee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Right now, these patients sometimes seem to be an afterthought.

Devang Sanghavi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My dad was handling that and my mom was with me and I didn't know what was going on and I wasn't let in to know, i was just an afterthought. I had no idea. I saw it like the rest of the world.

Jamie Lynn

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

From Metallica lending credibility to RSD( and by extension, records/record stores) via their RSD release a decade ago, to Taylor Swift, foregrounding vinyl editions of Olivia Rodrigo recent releases, not as an afterthought, but as an important part of their launch.

Carl Mello

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It used to be an afterthought for station owners to schedule truck deliveries. Now it's job No. 1, what I'm worried about for July is the increased demand works out to about 2,500 to 3,000 more deliveries needed every day. There just aren't the drivers to do that.

Tom Kloza

Found on CNN
2 years ago

School board elections, which have been the afterthought, are actually the most consequential elections that occur, as we are seeing now. We need to pay attention.

Emily Curtis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was very frustrating that my community was just an afterthought, and I felt like The Biden campaign really gave up on us, but I will never give up on this community.

Daniela Ferrera

Found on CNN
3 years ago

And unfortunately, women's rights are almost always an afterthought in any crisis situation.

Kristina Lunz

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I take a character who in a million years would never think she'd be the main character in a movie... but here I make her front and center. I think that's her emotional journey, as she goes from being like an afterthought in the school to being the main character -- like, really owning it in her life, i think that's probably true for a lot of us... we might think about ourselves a lot and we're self-absorbed, but we don't always see ourselves as the main characters in our life.

Alice Wu

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The Soviet Union focused on their military and the economy was almost an afterthought. The Soviet economy was almost entirely focused on their military.

Carl Schuster

Found on CNN
4 years ago

John's experience at eBay and PayPal illustrate that Nike's focus is on increasing profits by integrating digital marketing and other technologies into their operations. Improving their corporate culture is an afterthought, which only comes up when an incident like the Salazar crisis occurs... John was brought in to help Nike thrive in this new environment, which shows no signs of slowing.

Jim Sisco

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Nike is a global icon, which provides protection from the numerous scandals that have occurred during Mark's tenure, john's experience at eBay and PayPal illustrate that Nike's focus is on increasing profits by integrating digital marketing and other technologies into their operations. Improving their corporate culture is an afterthought, which only comes up when an incident like the Salazar crisis occurs... John was brought in to help Nike thrive in this new environment, which shows no signs of slowing.

Jim Sisco

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Any signatory to a contract can, anytime after an agreement has been signed, go back to the negotiating table if they are, as an afterthought, unsatisfied with certain aspects of the terms and conditions of the contract, our approach is purely commercial in nature.

Kerenga Kua

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

In fact, it appears that taking the guns was merely an afterthought.

Courtney Irby

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We are out of the realm of focusing squarely on the US Treasury or the Iranian central bank governor or Iran's oil minister. It does seem a bit of an afterthought, which is oddly misplaced, to discuss the power of sanctions when there is no meaningful new economic measure that will create a powerful new impact at this point.

Liz Rosenberg

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Water was always an afterthought for producers, now it's a business plan in itself.

Mike Christensen

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

David HeathHeath kind of take David HeathHeath socks for granted. They're an afterthought in the design and apparel world, we just got obsessed with this idea that we could help solve a problem through starting a business.

Randy Goldberg

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This is the genius of Trump's madness, he and (adviser Stephen) Bannon create so many distractions that what traditionally would have been a great fight -- a Supreme Court nomination one year after Republicans would not allow a vote on a Democratic nomination -- seems like an afterthought.

Craig Varoga

Found on CNN
7 years ago

In years past, we've been an afterthought, that's certainly not the case this year.

State Brian Kemp

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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