as in delayed
not arriving, occurring, or settled at the due, usual, or proper time
a belated birthday card
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Recent Examples of belated
Accounts of Tedros’s belated shift on China may be unlikely to win over his critics.
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Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2021
Nikole Hannah-Jones has rejected a contentious and belated offer of a tenured faculty p0sition at the University of North Carolina (UNC) and will join the faculty at Howard University instead.
—Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 6 July 2021
Nothing has reminded me of Russia quite so much as the Trump Administration’s belated effort to encourage Americans to vaccinate.
—Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2020
Then my friend Karen and her daughter Sophia stopped by to bring me a belated birthday present.
—Karina Bland, azcentral, 25 Mar. 2020
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Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2021
Nikole Hannah-Jones has rejected a contentious and belated offer of a tenured faculty p0sition at the University of North Carolina (UNC) and will join the faculty at Howard University instead.
—Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 6 July 2021
Nothing has reminded me of Russia quite so much as the Trump Administration’s belated effort to encourage Americans to vaccinate.
—Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2020
Then my friend Karen and her daughter Sophia stopped by to bring me a belated birthday present.
—Karina Bland, azcentral, 25 Mar. 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for belated
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The Giants aren’t expected to announce it until late Sunday or Monday.Andrew Baggarly, The Athletic, 8 Dec. 2024
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My filter was deliberately designed to avoid the likes of UPS to try and identify cases that are likely to be truly tardy in taking write-downs.Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
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Now, even that default 10 year lookback is absent from the aforementioned composite edition, as well as the also tardy prior composite edition covering 2017-19.Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
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The TransUnion 2025 Credit Forecast predicts the percentage of auto loans more than 60 days delinquent this year will come in at 1.45%, just about flat with the 1.42% rate in 2023, but then fall to 1.38% in the fourth quarter of 2025, a seven basis points improvement.Ed Garsten, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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So the total number of delinquent taxpayers is likely smaller than the total number of notices that were mailed out.Eamon Javers, CNBC, 5 Dec. 2024
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The latter film also has a strong argument that the franchise is long overdue for recognition.Mark Hughes, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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There are at least two major pieces of legislation that are long overdue for application.Jonah Blank, Foreign Affairs, 27 Nov. 2024
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“Belated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belated. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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