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Examples
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When he had dismissed the last one and thought himself alone, a late-comer entered, unexpected and unsummoned.
Chapter 29 2010
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DPA/Zuma Press This week, silver, a late-comer to the commodities party, has dropped almost a quarter QE3 is not a given, though.
No More Free Ride for Commodities Liam Denning 2011
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By the way, I'm a late-comer here, but this meme that we should try to maximize national IQ seems to run afoul of the idea of comparative advantage.
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I must confess that I'm a bit of a late-comer to McCall Smith's impressive bibliography of more than 50 works.
November 2009 2009
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This week, silver, a late-comer to the party, has dropped almost a quarter.
No More Free Ride for Commodities Liam Denning 2011
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I've never seen the movie, but Brin has explained how Costner, a late-comer to the project, single-handedly rescued it from selling a worldview diametrically (and brutishly) opposite the book's, salvaging it into an over-ambitious but generously intentioned muddle.
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The - ly suffix (meaning “like”, by the way, and derived from an Old English word meaning “corpse” – cool, no?) is a late-comer to English derivational suffixes, replacing the now purely phonetic final e (used to mean “adverb”, now means “long preceding vowel”).
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The company's challenges as a government-backed late-comer to the foundry industry also remain, and to be profitable in the longer term it may have to specialize in an industry niche rather than competing on technology upgrades and scale, Mr. Clendenin said.
SMIC Shares Sustain Three-Day Fall Owen Fletcher 2011
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He's a late-comer success story, people should look up to him.
Sam Worthington is British Hero Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future « FirstShowing.net 2010
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The popular story of Divine intervention in the form of a miracle, which caused a small amount of oil to last for eight days instead of one, is a relative late-comer to the holiday.
Brad Hirschfield: Heroes Of Hanukkah: God, Maccabees And You Brad Hirschfield 2010
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