as in new
not known or experienced before
that's a novel idea for a TV series
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as in narrative
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as in novelette
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Recent Examples of novel
Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
What hope is there for the novelist, and the novel’s readers?
—The Dial, 5 Aug. 2025
Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 31 July 2025
And after using a novel imaging approach in consultation with professional tattoo artists, researchers at the University of Bern and the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology have accurately reconstructed multiple designs inked onto the skin of an Iron Age herder from Siberia.
—Andrew Paul Jul 31, Popular Science, 31 July 2025
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Adjective
Regretting You is based on Hoover’s best-selling 2019 novel.
—Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
What hope is there for the novelist, and the novel’s readers?
—The Dial, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
Tesla’s competitors have also simply gotten better, including Rivian, leaving the Cybertruck in a gray area of no longer being novel and not being very useful, either.
—Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 31 July 2025
And after using a novel imaging approach in consultation with professional tattoo artists, researchers at the University of Bern and the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology have accurately reconstructed multiple designs inked onto the skin of an Iron Age herder from Siberia.
—Andrew Paul Jul 31, Popular Science, 31 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for novel
Adjective
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The skid is a new season-long, surpassing two previous six-game losing streaks — all of which have come since the calendar turned to July.—
Evan Webeck,
Mercury News,
17 Aug. 2025
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Elio — Disney and Pixar Animation’s summer box office flop — will try to find a new audience when the film arrives on digital streaming this week.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
17 Aug. 2025
Noun
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In this role, Claire will guide our day-to-day assignments, from quick turn reporting to longform narrative features to live events coverage.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
12 Aug. 2025
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In one study, psychologist Jonathan Adler followed a group of adults who wrote narratives about themselves over a period of 12 psychotherapy sessions.—
J. David Creswell,
Scientific American,
12 Aug. 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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This is an unfamiliar position for the Padres, who haven't won a division title since 2006.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Aug. 2025
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VPPs depend on customer participation, yet many people are unfamiliar with the concept or hesitant to engage without a clear and trusted value proposition.—
Luis D’Acosta,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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The extended edit period, along with reshoots, meant that things in the real world changed during the work on the film, blurring the lines between fact and fiction.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Aug. 2025
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Evie, who at the start of the book is in the camp of idle, underemployed protagonists that stud much of contemporary fiction, begins to find meaning in her work.—
Lora Kelley,
New Yorker,
7 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences and an American Geophysical Union monograph.—
Ian Dexter Palmer,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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The exhibition was catalyzed by the recent publication of Pulp Hope 2, the sequel to Pope’s hard-to-find 2007 monograph.—
Rob Salkowitz,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
Adjective
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Washington has sent Kyiv more than $66 billion in weapons; enacted a list of sanctions on the Russian economy; and helped the G-7 push through an unprecedented price-cap scheme meant to limit Russian oil revenues—all in the hope Moscow would sue for peace.—
Daniel DePetris,
Time,
7 Aug. 2025
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The lifetime achievement award is presented to performers who have made unprecedented contributions of outstanding artistic significance to Latin music; the Trustees Award is given to individuals who have made significant contributions, other than in performance, to music during their careers.—
Jessica Roiz,
Billboard,
7 Aug. 2025
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Never a fan of this kind of rhetoric—with which she and the rest of the country had been bombarded for years—Michiko inwardly bristled at the anecdote before the running dialogue changed tack to rumors about the new‑type bomb the Americans had just dropped on Hiroshima.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Aug. 2025
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And Ron Rakow told a great anecdote about his job interview with Jerry Garcia.—
Tom Teicholz,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Novel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/novel. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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