Examples of belated in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Accounts of Tedros’s belated shift on China may be unlikely to win over his critics. Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2021 Nikole Hannah-Jones has rejected a contentious and belated offer of a tenured faculty p0sition at the University of North Carolina (UNC) and will join the faculty at Howard University instead. Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 6 July 2021 Nothing has reminded me of Russia quite so much as the Trump Administration’s belated effort to encourage Americans to vaccinate. Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2020 Then my friend Karen and her daughter Sophia stopped by to bring me a belated birthday present. Karina Bland, azcentral, 25 Mar. 2020 See all Example Sentences for belated 

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“Belated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belated. Accessed 3 Nov. 2024.

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