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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
add
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Or maybe, she added as an afterthought , it was a boy.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The tiles looked out of place, as if they had been an afterthought .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All too often, lighting is an afterthought superimposed on the final decoration instead of being planned from the start.
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Having said good-bye, he had paused as if in an afterthought .
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He offered it to Coffin, not as a prize, but more as an afterthought .
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I was frisked, my belt and Seiko taken from me, and, as an afterthought , kicked in the ribs.
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In her editorial Vivienne Van Someren suggests that arrangements for job sharers are often an afterthought .
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In Mission Valley, housing was an afterthought .
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Too late and the greeting is grunted as an afterthought as you both pass only feet away from each other.