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late bloomer

noun

a person whose talents or capabilities are slow to develop:
A late bloomer, she wrote her first novel when she was almost 50.

But the region, for lack of a better term, was a late bloomer.

School is hard, and I was a late-bloomer in finding out who I was and how to be myself.

Its leadership relies, increasingly, on half-hearted, inexperienced freelancers or unskilled, late-bloomer recruits.

In contrast, Sarah was a late bloomer when it came to romance.

Her family claims her innocence, refuting charges that she is a maneater by insisting that she was a tomboy and a late bloomer.

They are a late bloomer and will occasionally produce a crop when the other sorts have been injured by late freezing.

Ten Week Stock—the "Gillyflower" of grandmother's garden—is a late bloomer.

Lancifolium Punctatum verum is a late bloomer; color, clear white with soft rose spots and green stripes.

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