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of late

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  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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"If I don't work, I don't get paid," the tattooist told the BBC, adding that trains had been "really inconvenient" as of late.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

As cryptocurrencies have closely followed tech stocks of late, earnings after the bell could provide a real boost to digital assets—if the tech giants deliver on cloud growth in particular.

From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026

Burger King tried it more than a decade ago, but its rib sandwich hasn’t returned of late.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 29, 2026

As of late last week, several items had highest bids under $100.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026

These names, like many others, have shifted hard and fast of late.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

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