adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
recognition
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Most importantly it is a belated recognition that imperialism offers a fantastically huge and barely mined seam of stories.
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Such a belated recognition is likely to strike a reader as old news.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a belated birthday card
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her belated realisation that he was in love with someone else
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I got a belated birthday card from my cousin yesterday.
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John made a belated attempt to apologize.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A belated rush to help is under way, complete with the good intentions and hazards that hasty rescues invariably bring.
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He was given a belated birthday cake with 60 candles.
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I set him down on the hood of the car and gave him a belated warning about snakes.
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It was while they were finishing their belated tea that Mrs Blunt arrived.
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Of course I welcome that, but it is a belated conversion.
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The recent production of the play that used the gay version was a fascinating experiment, not a belated act of justice.
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The Revolution certainly marked a belated victory for the policy of Exclusion, and finally established the legislative sovereignty of Parliament.
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Their subsequent revival and belated acceptance into the rock fold was one of the period's more surprising reversals.