New Year
noun
1
: the calendar year about to start or recently started
2
a
usually New Year's
: new year's day
b
: the first days of a calendar year
3
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Just minutes after a fire erupted above Pacific Palisades on New Year’s Day in 2025, investigators say, Jonathan Rinderknecht asked ChatGPT if he might be held responsible for the blaze.
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James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
The honors, which aim to reward individuals for their contributions to British life, are awarded twice a year to celebrities and public figures as well as ordinary people, once at New Year’s, and then in June, to mark the king’s birthday.
—ABC News, 12 June 2026
Her father's New Year's greeting card for 2023 showed King Maha Vajiralongkorn and Queen Suthida garbed in somber black, which many Thais saw as confirmation of the gravity of her condition.
—CBS News, 12 June 2026
Rinderknecht had been working as an Uber driver on the New Year's Eve in question.
—Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 11 June 2026
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James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
The honors, which aim to reward individuals for their contributions to British life, are awarded twice a year to celebrities and public figures as well as ordinary people, once at New Year’s, and then in June, to mark the king’s birthday.
—ABC News, 12 June 2026
Her father's New Year's greeting card for 2023 showed King Maha Vajiralongkorn and Queen Suthida garbed in somber black, which many Thais saw as confirmation of the gravity of her condition.
—CBS News, 12 June 2026
Rinderknecht had been working as an Uber driver on the New Year's Eve in question.
—Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 11 June 2026
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“New Year.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/New%20Year. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.
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