of late

Idioms  

1. 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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Example Sentences

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of late

The BBC's Caitríona Perry spoke to Kerry Kennedy, the niece of late president John F Kennedy, about demolition threats to the performance centre named after him.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

Analysts had said that despite intense focus of late on monthly inflation data, the biggest change to the outlook has come from a run-up in energy and commodity prices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Indeed, the so-called “commercialization” of Burning Man has been much discussed as of late.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

International aid to Afghanistan has dropped sharply, with the United Nations saying it had received less than 30 percent of the funding needed to provide life-saving assistance as of late August.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

When they finally stopped rowing in the iron-cold dark of late afternoon and returned to the dock, they had to chip ice off the oarlocks to get the oars out.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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