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The Pac-12’s belated start meant its playoff hopes were going to ride heavily on whether somebody — and “somebody” was assumed to be Oregon — would bash everyone in its way.

Speaking with reporters Thursday, he did not rule out taking action against the General Services Administration at a future date to force a belated recognition of his presidential transition.

Apple’s belated embrace of the technology will go a long way toward taking it mainstream.

Because of its sensitivity to controversy, the Nobel committee has a habit of awarding belated prizes … sometimes decades late.

To skywatchers, though, chiaroscuro was just an extremely belated recognition of a natural truth that their predecessors had discovered millennia earlier.

Belatedly, it occurred to Brad that he had neglected to tell the bank man about the broken window.

It was only belatedly, almost fuzzily, that they became aware of his glowering presence in the doorway.

Malone opened his mouth, shut it and then, belatedly, snapped shut the channel through which he'd contacted her.

Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds were in the kitchen, she belatedly washing the supper dishes, he smoking his pipe near the window.

Belatedly, Penny realized she had turned toward the dormitories.