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Marrero—who only reached “The Show” as a belated 39-year-old rookie—always did possess an odd sense of timing.

But could this invoking of the words of the Godfather of Soul be a belated effort to inflate these flat polling numbers?

But there is a belated wake-up among conservatives opposed to cannibalization.

Rick Santorum, the (belated) winner in Iowa, who had been battling Gingrich for that distinction, is the unambiguous loser.

Some belated scrutiny of the congressional record that later earned him big bucks.

They found a few belated sowars of the 3d Cavalry, who took refuge in a wood, and the artillery opened fire at the trees!

The belated moon stole up from its lair, hovered above the sky-line, a gaudy orange sphere in the haze of smoke.

Every girl should have one girl's good time, and although mine is belated, it would be silly to let it pass.

Then a belated sense of fear came to her with the consciousness of victory, and she slipped into bed, cold to the bone.

Belated young Tractarians who burn incense in their monastic bedrooms were no more common in Liverpool then than they are to-day.