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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He was never tardy or absent the whole semester.
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We apologize for our tardy response to your letter.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Do please forgive this very tardy reply.
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It's an excrescence, a monstrosity, some tardy addition to the agenda.
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Talking out, skipping class, being tardy or disrespectful are no more acceptable for work-inhibited students than for any others.
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The tardy appearance of the tapes provided the opportunity for Sen.
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The Jesuits soon boasted a chapel and a lot, while the tardy Protestants waited eight years to build their own church.
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This makes the car feel tardy in quick manoeuvres and exacerbates the variable-ratio's less-than-linear response through fast sweepers.
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Yorkshire may have been slightly tardy in not monitoring his schoolboy progress.