They are a newly married couple.
That is a newly acquired habit.
Here is where we keep the newly arrived merchandise.
The room is newly painted.
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Meanwhile, the 21,000 properties declared newly ineligible for city service now are responsible for negotiating deals for service from one of five private haulers — and many have struggled to do so.—Sam Schulz, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2025 Randy Korgan, director of the Teamsters Amazon Division, said the union supports the newly pending bill.—Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 30 Sep. 2025 Explained As a government shutdown looms, federal agencies are updating contingency plans—some newly posted, others relying on years-old precedents—to guide operations under a funding lapse.—Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025 These newly aware companies’ high-speed trading of financial projects destroys the Earth itself, forcing humans to flee to the margins of the solar system.—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 29 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for newly
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Time Traveler
The first known use of newly was
before the 12th century
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