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as in narrative
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as in novelette
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as in new
not known or experienced before
that's a novel idea for a TV series
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Recent Examples of novel
Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 20 June 2025
Shaw was also renowned as a writer of multiple novels, plays, and screenplays.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 20 June 2025
Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 19 June 2025
However, an international team of engineers set out to develop a product that could be applied to both new and existing buildings: a novel paint that exponentially boosts structure’s ability to fend off warming temperatures.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 18 June 2025
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Noun
The filmmaker says the new doc captures the tough environment surrounding the adaptation of Peter Benchley’s novel.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 20 June 2025
Shaw was also renowned as a writer of multiple novels, plays, and screenplays.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 20 June 2025
Adjective
Together, the novel approach has made the cricketing world take sharp notice, intent on putting pressure on the opposition.
—Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 19 June 2025
However, an international team of engineers set out to develop a product that could be applied to both new and existing buildings: a novel paint that exponentially boosts structure’s ability to fend off warming temperatures.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 18 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for novel
Noun
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The gallery’s setting, marooned on the tiny island of Illa del Rei reached by boat from the Mahón harbor, feels cut off from reality, and is an ideal stage for her looped, surreal narratives.—
Nargess Banks,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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There’s a dangerous narrative that refugees threaten national identity.—
Mayu Saini,
Sourcing Journal,
25 June 2025
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What began as an audio-only novelette (drawing on el-Mohtar’s own experience with the harp) has transformed into a novella with illustrations: In the town of Thistleford, Hawthorn sisters Esther and Ysabel raise their voices together to sing about everything from adventure to sadness.—
Natalie Zutter
January 2,
Literary Hub,
2 Jan. 2025
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Alfred Hitchcock turned one of Woolrich’s novelettes into Rear Window, for which Woolrich was paid the grand sum of $650.—
Sam Kashner,
Air Mail,
12 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Over at Brooks’s, Shai comes over and teaches him how to use his new sewing machine, which is a fascinating dynamic because Shai is an agent’s assistant while Brooks is a clothing designer.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
18 June 2025
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Matt Dillon, Bret Maverick, Ben Cartwright and the Virginian all have a new place to hang their Stetsons.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
17 June 2025
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Megan Abbott is my favorite suspense/crime fiction writer working today.—
John Warner,
Chicago Tribune,
21 June 2025
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Unique blend of literary and historical fiction as well as a penetrating exploration of philosophy, art, historical responsibility and guilt in the context of war.—
Book Marks
June 20,
Literary Hub,
20 June 2025
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Her first monograph, Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature, won the Literary Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies in 2013.—
erin Khuê Ninh
June 17,
Literary Hub,
17 June 2025
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That’s about working with the academic community to understand their needs and to add primary sources, monographs, and other scholarly books and, most recently, library special collections and archives through JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services.—
Sara Ivry,
JSTOR Daily,
4 June 2025
Adjective
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Do not install anything from random links, especially those shared through ads, messages or unfamiliar websites. 2.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
19 June 2025
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This is not an unfamiliar situation—the trust funds faced insolvency back in the early 1980s.—
Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 June 2025
Noun
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Reddit users immediately rushed to share both their shock and poke fun at the incident through lighthearted takes and grotesque anecdotes about the dangers that may be lurking in some seafood dishes.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 June 2025
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Nevertheless, the ordinary people of Iran have not acted on these sentiments and, based on anecdotes from visitors to Iran, are very welcoming toward Americans.—
Mohammad Hosseini,
Chicago Tribune,
22 June 2025
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In both cases, however, the interior aril, or pulp, of the fruits is white and grape-like in texture.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
5 June 2025
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Peeling the skin and outer pulp will get rid of additional residue that penetrates into some produce.—
Matt Fuchs,
Time,
5 June 2025
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“Novel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/novel. Accessed 29 Jun. 2025.
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