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She sent a belated birthday card after realizing she had missed the actual day.belated = after the usual time
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She offered a belated congratulations to her colleague on the promotion, having only just heard the news.
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Telegonus stood before me living, but I felt the belated wash of panic.† (source)
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It would have been an opportunity, though belated, to stand behind the silo—to make her nightly signal that it was safe for Edgar to come home.† (source)
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So is my belated recognition that our relationship, though generally good, was not ideal—not that night, nor any other.† (source)
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Moreover, as the ground thawed, his route turned into a gauntlet of boggy muskeg and impenetrable alder, and McCandless belatedly came to appreciate one of the fundamental (if counterintuitive) axioms of the North: winter, not summer, is the preferred season for traveling overland through the bush.† (source)
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So I'm enjoying my belated halfway feast.† (source)
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Belatedly his arms come around her.† (source)
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And of course I did, although with thick-witted belatedness.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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And the next day, my mother called me, to invite me to a belated birthday dinner for my father.† (source)
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I am merely giving you, if belatedly, what was rightfully yours all along.† (source)
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He means, she thought with stupid belatedness, they should all be murdered.† (source)
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I hope my belated reaction will not disappoint them.† (source)
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Belatedly, he remembered that Jen was a Baron.† (source)
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Seeing this woman at the commissary, he finally went through a belated, dim-witted epiphany, not a brilliant light shining down from heaven, more like the brown glimmer of a half-dead flashlight from the top of a stepladder: Juanita hadn't really changed much at all since those days, just grown into herself.† (source)
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He smiled, and suddenly, belatedly, my longing for him woke up, but now it was attached to my shame like its Siamese twin, and the longing itself was newly but fully shameful, and I remember thinking of our talks, the kiss, the lovemaking, and saying to myself, the good part is over already.† (source)
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