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as in narrative
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as in novelette
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not known or experienced before
that's a novel idea for a TV series
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Recent Examples of novel
Max Goldbart, Deadline, 18 May 2026
Daunt stepped into the role of CEO in 2019, when Barnes & Noble was struggling to stay competitive as some book lovers were turning to online stores, like Amazon, to purchase their next novel.
—Ariana Brockington, NBC news, 18 May 2026
Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026
But seeing the world through the eyes of a child or teenager everything is exciting, colorful, new and novel.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 15 May 2026
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Noun
The novel was made into a 2007 film directed by Roeg starring Yellowstone’s Reilly as Liffey, Sutherland as Lars and Miranda Richardson as Mabs.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 18 May 2026
Daunt stepped into the role of CEO in 2019, when Barnes & Noble was struggling to stay competitive as some book lovers were turning to online stores, like Amazon, to purchase their next novel.
—Ariana Brockington, NBC news, 18 May 2026
Adjective
The Starz drama, based on Diana Gabaldon's novel series of the same name, first premiered in 2014, following a WWII combat nurse who accidentally time-travels to 18th-century Scotland and falls in love with a Highland warrior.
—Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026
But seeing the world through the eyes of a child or teenager everything is exciting, colorful, new and novel.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 15 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for novel
Noun
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As Glyph rounds into the homestretch the narrative broadens, a flash of transcendence for the soldier and horse, a ray of hope for Petra and Patch.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 May 2026
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Leetch, meanwhile, has consistently pushed back on that narrative.—
Vincent Z. Mercogliano,
New York Times,
21 May 2026
Noun
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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
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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
Adjective
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And across all networks, just six new shows bow in the fall — with most waiting for post-football homes.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
15 May 2026
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Winston makes a cameo to execute another electric Ford Field trick play, and the Giants lose a close one with their offense starting to find a new gear.—
Pat Leonard,
New York Daily News,
15 May 2026
Noun
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But mostly, the intertwining threads just sit there, never coming together in any satisfying way or holding up as their own story within the story, despite how hard the writers work at showing that reality can inspire fiction but fiction can also bounce back to influence reality.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
14 May 2026
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For the week ending May 10, 2026 Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 May 2026
Noun
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When Benedict Nicolson published a seminal monograph on the artist in 1968, his subtitle was Painter of Light.—
Julian Bell,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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The firm, which recently released Drawn Together, a monograph of its interiors with Rizzoli, leans into the drama for its more maximalist interiors.—
Dan Howarth,
Architectural Digest,
19 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Alex Smalley will begin Sunday's final round of the PGA Championship in entirely unfamiliar territory as the 54-hole leader at Aronimink Golf Club.—
Mark Harris OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
17 May 2026
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Guests clustered around tables in the ship’s new Parlor venue, carefully reading instructions to unfamiliar games while sipping cocktails.—
Josh Rivera,
USA Today,
17 May 2026
Noun
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Programs get rolled out, budgets get approved and results disappear into a fog of lagging indicators and anecdotes.—
Brian Tuite,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2026
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The performance will be interspersed with historical facts and anecdotes about the music.—
Ut Community Press,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 May 2026
Noun
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Set in 1979, the series follows Leila, a 19-year-old Pakistani-Canadian young woman with a love of film and pulp novels who travels to California to reconnect with her estranged uncle – a semi-retired private eye once celebrated for having married the starlet he was originally hired to find.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
20 May 2026
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Ryan Seacrest’s preference for pulp or no pulp in his orange juice?—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
18 May 2026
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“Novel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/novel. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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