In the nick of time
In the nick of time adverb - At the last possible moment.
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Late and in the nick of time are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Late" instead an adverb phrase "In the nick of time".
Late
Late adverb - After the due, usual, or proper time.
In the nick of time and late are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "In the nick of time" instead an adverb "Late".
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After following the signal to her location in the nick of time, the Defiant crew discovered that the planet's atmosphere caused a temporal distortion in the communications, and they had actually arrived three years too late to save her.
Source: Not Quite Saved Enough - Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable travel across the world by calling in favors with people they have helped in the past, while always arriving at the villains' lair in the nick of time and returning home in time to resume their mundane activities; they are late only when that episode plot requires it.
Source: Traveling at the Speed of Plot - Along the way, the story also takes time to deconstruct elements of the video games; the Chaos Emeralds are literal Satanic artifacts that slowly corrupt their users and Sonic and friends are largely Late to the Tragedy rather than saving everyone in the nick of time.
Source: Fan Fic / Sonic X: Dark Chaos
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