new waves

noun

plural of new wave
as in last words

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  3. hot tickets
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  7. rages
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  • Through a microphone, the journalists listened as Pike spoke what were meant to be her last words—about love—and sang with her Buddhist spiritual adviser.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Smolensk, Russia, February 1837 and February 1860 Belatedly, John’s last words reached Adelaide.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Oct. 2026
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  • At that rate, removing one billion tons a year would consume almost 8 percent of all the electricity produced worldwide.
    — Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
  • For context, burning fossil fuels produced about 38 billion tons in 2025.
    — Scott K. Johnson, ArsTechnica, 19 Oct. 2026
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  • The Story and American Buffalo are going to be hot tickets too.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2026
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  • Instead modes of therapy that help people reduce black-and-white thinking, such as dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), are beginning to show promise in treating addictions.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Vanguart’s follow-up watch, the Orb, was three years in the making, and became the world’s first tourbillon featuring a function selector to switch between manual and automatic modes.
    — Rachel Ingram, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2026
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  • What makes lifestyle trends from the region particularly appealing globally is the foundations on which they’re built.
    — Lola Akinmade, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Smilow says a few entrepreneurial trends are taking over college campuses.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of trends
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  • There are several other ongoing furors about the president’s propensity to use his power in unusually personal ways.
    — Niall Stanage, The Hill, 5 Oct. 2025
Definition of furors
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  • Foster, a defense contractor who’s just lost his job, rages at the burdens of everyday life in America, and thinks the world is working against certain people.
    — Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Until there is, the debate over the sustainability of the memory cycle and the appropriate earnings multiple rages on.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of rages
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