newest

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Recent Examples of newest But that will all soon change when the century-old baseball diamond gets newest-generation synthetic turf, striped for football (both flag and tackle), soccer and lacrosse, beneath a digital scoreboard, aluminum bleacher seating for 500 and dugouts that double as dressing rooms. Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for newest
Adjective
  • The video is the latest in a lengthy stream of controversies the probation department has faced in recent years.
    James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The shooting happened the day before the fifth anniversary of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting that killed 17 and is the latest in what has become a deadly new year in the U.S.
    Joey Cappelletti and Mike Householder, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Feb. 2023
Adjective
  • The recent series of events—none of which, on their face, are as dramatic as an armed uprising of mercenary fighters—has created a sense that the political system is at once tightly controlled and utterly rudderless.
    Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
  • The incident occurred as Minneapolis faced tensions from federal immigration enforcement operations, reflecting a broader uptick in threats against Congress members in recent years.
    Tim Sullivan, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2026
Adjective
  • The film has also landed a pair of high-profile new additions.
    Kennedy French, Variety, 8 May 2026
  • There was a lot wrong with it, and new things were going wrong all the time, but many of the old things that had been going wrong were also getting fixed.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
Adjective
  • Subscribe to the free Vintage Chicago Tribune newsletter, join our Chicagoland history Facebook group, stay current with Today in Chicago History and follow us on Instagram for more from Chicago’s past.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2026
  • Today, Sodebo’s current time is almost half that, yet there is more to be shaved off the record, which might even come down to as little as 30 days.
    Andrew Rice, New York Times, 7 May 2026
Adjective
  • Yet another secondary effect of the Iran war is the expansion of modern drone warfare to the Persian Gulf region.
    Sudarsan Raghavan, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Clinics use modern equipment and high-quality materials and keep prices affordable.
    K.H. Koehler, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Yet cross-cultural influence continues to be a key subject of art history, and quotation is still a commonplace practice in contemporary art.
    Glenn Adamson, Artforum, 2 May 2026
  • British literature of the Romantic, or modern, or contemporary periods; and then film or, finally, linguistics.
    Michael Gorra, The New York Review of Books, 1 May 2026
Adjective
  • Modern readers may take heart in the fact that there are many excellent critics thwacking through the slop—albeit with freelance machetes, on newfangled platforms.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
  • That includes newfangled financial firms that may see higher demand as some tax changes and other cost-of-living policies are implemented, and homebuilders that would see an uptick if mortgage rates fell.
    Geoffrey Morgan, Bloomberg, 3 Feb. 2026

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“Newest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/newest. Accessed 8 May. 2026.

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