of late
Recently, lately, as in She's been very quiet of late; is something wrong? This idiom uses late as a noun instead of an adjective, a usage dating from about 1250. The idiom dates from the early 1400s.
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Words nearby of late
Of Human Bondage, Ofili, of it, oflag, O'Flaherty, of late, OFlem, Oflot, ofloxacin, O.F.M., Of Mice and Men
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