Late
Late adverb - After the due, usual, or proper time.
Next
Next adverb - At the time or occasion immediately following.
Both words in one sentence
- Averted in the next movie, when Obi-Wan again sneaks around but happens upon the separatists just too late to hear Grievous telling the others where they will be hiding next.
Source: Exact Eaves Dropping -
For the next year and a half the band would remain off the radar, until their reunion in late 2007, which was met by the release of their self-titled EP the following year.
Source: Music / Finch - Late for School: After Namsoon and Heungsoo mend their friendship, they go back to having sleepovers and they are shown scrambling the next morning and being late for school.
Source: Series / School 2013
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Next or Late. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/late/next.
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