as in new
not known or experienced before
that's a novel idea for a TV series
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Recent Examples of novel
Edna Bonhomme, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
But Gein’s impact on pop culture went beyond serving as the inspiration for the 1959 novel and 1960 Alfred Hitchcock movie.
—Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
Yangyang Cheng, NPR, 4 Oct. 2025
The new hypothesis about them is one of several novel ideas that theorists have been proposing since this spring, when the latest DESI results were published.
—Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2025
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Adjective
This revisiting of the history of Ghanaian handicraft appears in works such as Beasts of No Nation, 2013–22, a wood panel (sharing a name with musician Fela Kuti’s 1989 album and Uzodinma Iweala’s 2005 novel) wrapped in wax-print cloth that echoes the vibrant textiles seen in Ghanaian markets.
—Edna Bonhomme, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
But Gein’s impact on pop culture went beyond serving as the inspiration for the 1959 novel and 1960 Alfred Hitchcock movie.
—Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
After weeks of obfuscation and denial, the Chinese government suddenly shut down the city of Wuhan and surrounding regions to contain the novel coronavirus outbreak.
—Yangyang Cheng, NPR, 4 Oct. 2025
The new hypothesis about them is one of several novel ideas that theorists have been proposing since this spring, when the latest DESI results were published.
—Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2025
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Adjective
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The divisions included endurance and sports race cars, supercars, flat track motorcycles, sprint cars, drift cars, vintage IndyCars, NASCAR, ASF Cup cars (American Speed Festival) and a new group called LROC (Ladies Race of Champions).—
Keenan Thompson,
Freep.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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That was just one of the findings of a new statewide health survey -- just the second in the country -- that was announced Thursday by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.—
Daniel McFadin,
Arkansas Online,
6 Oct. 2025
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The 2024 European Parliament elections strengthened far-right blocs and pushed the centre-right toward diluting elements of the Green Deal, reframing climate rules as sovereignty or competitiveness threats and amplifying cost-of-living and farmer-protest narratives.—
Felicia Jackson,
Forbes.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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The predominant narrative among many springs scientists, advocates and government officials is that rising nitrate levels in springs over the past few decades fuels the growth of excess algae.—
Christopher F. Meindl,
The Conversation,
3 Oct. 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
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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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All this because a political debate has arisen, where the main players are politicians from 30 years ago, very conservative, who are unfamiliar with innovation.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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From day one, new consultants rotate across industries, geographies, and functions, adapting on the fly and mastering unfamiliar businesses.—
Ruth Umoh,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
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Successful or not, the fact that alternatives exist at all suggests virtual particles might be useful fiction rather than physical truth.—
Dipangkar Dutta,
The Conversation,
3 Oct. 2025
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As fiction and technology intersect, the project opens new terrain for narrative experimentation and audience engagement.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
3 Oct. 2025
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Rose, writing a monograph on the failure of realism to capture the climate crisis between 2015 and 2030, proposes that historians should cleave to facts.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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The plates section in the monograph emphasizes this in beautiful, resonant pairings chosen by Steven Rose.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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That was the hammer Kaprizov and his representatives wielded, in an environment where so few superstars hit free agency despite unprecedented year-over-year cap growth.—
James Mirtle,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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Such a move wouldn’t be unprecedented.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
1 Oct. 2025
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The women talked about the event in quiet tones, trading stories of their own near-misses when their children were small—the sorts of scary stories that become funny anecdotes after nothing bad happens, like the time Mollie’s baby fell off a sled on the way home from Fort Greene Park.—
Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
6 Oct. 2025
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There are plenty of excellent online co-op games, but few can spawn as many great anecdotes as Deep Rock Galactic.—
Fran Ruiz,
Space.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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“Novel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/novel. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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