novels

noun

plural of novel
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as in narratives

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as in novelettes

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Recent Examples of novels Heather Rose is the Australian author of seven novels including her latest novel The Museum of Modern Love published this month by Algonquin. — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026 Later novels routinely took inspiration from family members or former or current lovers; the 1980 novel that baffled Frank Kermode is a dreamlike fable about a man guiltily trying to have an extramarital affair. — Christopher Tayler, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for novels
  1. narratives
  2. texts
  3. fictions
  4. textbooks
  5. anecdotes
  6. anthologies
  7. yarns
  8. treatises
Noun
  • Pork Soda, in particular, foreshadowed the weight of nu-metal acts like Korn, who also deployed sagging bass in service of profoundly unsettling narratives.
    — Sasha Geffen, Pitchfork, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Public investors are now being invited in after the restructuring worked, earnings improved, and nuclear power became one of the market’s most attractive investment narratives.
    — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of narratives
Noun
  • At one end are old-school flip phones, popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s, that handle calls and texts but little else.
    — Maya Blackstone, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026
  • The app walks you through various permissions to access your texts, calendar, and phone before showing legal documents, including terms and conditions and the privacy policy.
    — Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of texts
Noun
  • Invasion fictions tended to spring up in response to each new form of invasion panic.
    — Ivan Kreilkamp, JSTOR Daily, 10 June 2026
  • The program also happens to be in line with one of the president’s convenient rhetorical fictions.
    — Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026
Definition of fictions
Noun
  • Students have saved nearly $60 million in textbooks, and now 46 degree programs have zero textbook costs along the way.
    — Jared Polis, Denver Post, 30 July 2026
  • The mine wars were omitted from West Virginia school textbooks, replaced with a patriotic version of the coal industry’s history.
    — Elijah TanAll, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026
Definition of textbooks
Noun
  • According to Mary Lovely, an economist at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE), there are other anecdotes like this one.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026
  • To put my whole psyche, insecurities, anecdotes, family, community, insanity out there in a show in this way.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 29 July 2026
Definition of anecdotes
Noun
  • The third chapter of my book on anthologies, The Treasuries, is about literary censorship in the early nineteenth century.
    — Clare Bucknell, The New York Review of Books, 27 June 2026
  • Part of what fascinates and frustrates as regards Ginsberg is that for all of those thick anthologies, propriety forces me to concede that many of the poems simply aren’t that good.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
Definition of anthologies
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  • The Child has placed his foot on the basket of yarns and has grasped the yarnwinder and gazes attentively at the four spokes that are in the form of a cross.
    — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 3 Aug. 2026
  • The company also developed bio-sensing yarns under its miCoach ecosystem.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 27 July 2026
Definition of yarns
Noun
  • Physiognomic treatises reappeared in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, then took off in the eighteenth and nineteenth.
    — Cal Revely-Calder, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • One way to reduce the risk of this happening is to connect the AI model to a body of legal material, such as case law and treatises.
    — Ellen Sheng, CNBC, 19 May 2026
Definition of treatises

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