belatedly recognize
Frequency: 5.82.1 per million words
to accept or admit that something is true or real after it has happened
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Examples (10)
- The government belatedly recognized the danger posed by the rising sea levels.
- She belatedly recognized the signs of his unhappiness.
- The company has belatedly recognized the need for better data security.
- The artist's genius was only belatedly recognized by the critics.
- It is a common human flaw to belatedly recognize the value of things we have lost.
- If we don't act now, we will belatedly recognize this as a missed opportunity.
- He was belatedly recognizing that his initial assumptions were completely wrong.
- The commission belatedly recognized the contribution of the forgotten pioneers.
- To belatedly recognize an error does not absolve one of responsibility.
- Only after he left did I belatedly recognize how much he meant to me.