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What connects the following words?

ANTES
LATEST
LATELY
SCALES
WORN

There are about 34 examples in total, which I will share once someone cracks the puzzle.
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Maybe this was too difficult. Anyway the answer is that all of them form anagrams from +S, +ED and +ING although they aren't verbs.

Here's the complete list. How many of the resulting words can you get? (I'll post the full table later.)

ALAS
AIBELT
AMUSER
ANTES
ASSER
BEVALA
BOALER
BRAA
CESSAL
LACS
LATELY
LATEST
LOSH
LUAL
MAIE
MANTEA
OMERTA
ORASM
ORIAL
RESP
SALERM
SELB
SEMEN
SERC
SHATER
SOBA
SOBA
SOEIC
SORG
STEIND
TRIANT
TRIOMA
UINAL
WORN
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And SOBA.
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But your list isn't words. You said "what connects the following words", showed us some words saying there was about 34 in total, and then you show us this list and it isn't words? What the hell is wrong with you?
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