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belated
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    Then he went to revive himself with a belated cup of tea.†  (source)
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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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    Perhaps better than this belated offering.†  (source)
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    Mad Auntie Kath had come up trumps with a belated birthday present ...hurrah!†  (source)
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    Belatedly, he remembered that Jen was a Baron.†  (source)
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    He means, she thought with stupid belatedness, they should all be murdered.†  (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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    Hard rules, in belated emergence, give us confidence and restore our bearings.†  (source)
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    Behind Kile, Henri belatedly joined in the laughter.†  (source)
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    And of course I did, although with thick-witted belatedness.†  (source)
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    Nothing can be done that reflects poorly on the White House or its belated push for civil rights.†  (source)
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    I should never have come to the hall, he realized belatedly.†  (source)
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    I hope my belated reaction will not disappoint them.†  (source)
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    A little belatedly, I started to worry over where it might land.†  (source)
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