make a fresh/new start
idiom
: to start a new life
Her divorce gave her an opportunity to make a fresh/new start.
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In retrospect, Ratzinger was manifestly the wrong man for the top job: too old, too retiring, too rigid, too sapped by past controversies to make a fresh start.
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Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2025
Set in Hawkins in 1959, ‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’ is an origin story to the Netflix series, and follows small town Jim Hopper, Joyce Maldonado and new student Henry Creel who arrives on the scene when his family try to make a new start and escape the shadows of their past.
—Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Eddie also halts Aurelia’s plans to escape the island with a handful of jewels and cash to make a new start.
—Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 10 Dec. 2024
That's up to you, of course, but now would be a good astrological time to break with old routines and make a fresh start.
—Glamour, 27 Nov. 2024
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Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2025
Set in Hawkins in 1959, ‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’ is an origin story to the Netflix series, and follows small town Jim Hopper, Joyce Maldonado and new student Henry Creel who arrives on the scene when his family try to make a new start and escape the shadows of their past.
—Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Eddie also halts Aurelia’s plans to escape the island with a handful of jewels and cash to make a new start.
—Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 10 Dec. 2024
That's up to you, of course, but now would be a good astrological time to break with old routines and make a fresh start.
—Glamour, 27 Nov. 2024
See All Example Sentences for make a fresh/new start
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“Make a fresh/new start.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/make%20a%20fresh%2Fnew%20start. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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