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late bloomer
noun as in person slow to develop talent
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Now retired Morgan was a bit of a late bloomer with the most memorable spell of his career coming with Leicester City, where he won the Premier League title at the age of 32.
Not bad for a quintessential late bloomer — a guy who took a risky career pivot in his late 30s, running up his credit card debt as he traded a high-paying life in finance to dive into journalism during a time of major upheaval for the industry.
The United States, which had never played in the World Cup, is a late bloomer on the international cricket stage.
The appeal of the late bloomer movie is rooted in its parent genre: the coming-of-age story.
But with a late bloomer, the world’s possibilities have been shut down a little, and that shifts the tone.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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