as late as

idiom

: as recently as

—used in referring to a time that one thinks is surprisingly recent

The company is now in serious trouble, but it was reporting record profits as late as last year.

Examples of as late as in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Symptoms usually start within 2 weeks after eating food contaminated with Listeria but may start as early as the same day or as late as 10 weeks after, per the CDC. —

Kelly Tyko, Axios, 31 July 2024 At a hearing, Yves Gladu admitted to having made some forty dives at the Prince de Conty site in the nineteen-seventies and as late as 1999. —

Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024 Black flies are the main biting fly in the Upper Peninsula, although people tend to encounter them most near creeks and rivers where their larvae hatch from, appearing mostly in the spring through June but sometimes as late as fall. —

Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 26 June 2024 It was believed to be built and used during the Roman High Empire and Late Antiquity periods, from about 31 B.C. to as late as the 8th century A.D., according to the release. —

Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 17 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for as late as

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