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belatedly

[ US /bɪˈɫeɪtədɫi/ ]
[ UK /bɪlˈe‍ɪtɪdli/ ]
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  1. later than usual or than expected
    notice came so tardily that we almost missed the deadline
    the train arrived late
    the children came late to school
    we awoke late
    I belatedly wished her a happy birthday

How To Use belatedly In A Sentence

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  • Meanwhile, the government forces under General Cope appeared belatedly to take him on.
  • Currie ended the match with a flourish and belatedly displayed the flair and pace that they undoubtedly possess.
  • By the 1970s, when the project was belatedly put in train, it was rightly judged that the effects of the Clean Air Act justified a loose interpretation of this provision.
  • What real advantages are there to be gained from resurrecting a clapped-out scheme that was halted belatedly in the early 1960s?
  • Then it belatedly dawned on me that the report was in the future tense and was written to explain what was due to happen that evening.
  • The difference is that Beethoven lifts the upper two notes of the triad, leaving the bass to follow belatedly, while Elgar jacks up the bass first, and the upper notes follow.
  • Nearly two and a half centuries after the Declaration of Independence, the grievances it adumbrated are belatedly coming true—but in Britain, rather than in North America. A Letter to America
  • Belatedly, it has begun to strike us that this is an unpleasurable and unhealthy way to carry on. Times, Sunday Times
  • If you're not hanging out with me on Facebook--most of you who know me are, I think, but presumably there are more of you out there, so sorry about this--you don't know that I have belatedly caught up with the rest of the world and discovered Project Runway, to great joy of discovery and great sadness of belatedness. Archive 2009-04-01
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