All 4 Uses
belated
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Typical American, by Gish Jen
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- With her big barbarian frame and long nose and hairy forearms, though, she just wasn't Ralph's type (the hair bothered him especially — like a monkey's, he thought); and anyway, he was too exhausted to be thinking about such things — having come, he belatedly realized, to the complete other side of the world.†
Chpt 1.2
- Belatedly he began to register some specifics.†
Chpt 1.8 *
- Yet they were belatedly shocked.†
Chpt 2.10
- Her belated interest so delighted Ralph that as they huddled over the kitchen table, he kissed her several times, ardently.†
Chpt 4.35
Definitions:
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(1)
(belated) after the expected or usual time
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)