belated
Example Sentences
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Reports emerged last week that authorities were launching a belated search for a woman reported missing months ago.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
"Happy belated 80th birthday, @POTUS," Merz wrote on X.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
That afternoon a package arrived at our house with a belated Mother’s Day gift for Cynthia from our kids: a pair of hiking poles for her next adventure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
Their discomfort now is real, but it is also belated and partial.
From Salon ● May 5, 2026
She spoke like an American, with the same expectations of fairness, even fairness belated and begrudged, that she took into medical school all those years ago.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Vocabulary lists containing belated
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