NOVELS Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words

novels

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plural of novel

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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

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Those films have frequently been described by reviewers and political commentators as advancing narratives aligned with Hindu nationalist politics, although their makers have defended them as fact-based or historically grounded.

— Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
Uranus in Gemini is transforming the structure of our conversations, narratives and mindsets, making previous methods of communication feel increasingly inadequate.

— Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026

Definition of narratives

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In the series premiere of Netflix’s Vladimir, Rachel Weisz awakens from troubled sleep to a cascade of texts, sighs deeply, and addresses the camera with pleading eyes.

— Judy Berman, Time, 8 July 2026
Prosecutors, pursuing a potential death sentence, say DNA on a towel and a rooftop surveillance video, plus a note and texts to Robinson’s roommate-partner, strongly link him to the shooting.

— Hannah Schoenbaum, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026

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To have a class project become a national program that is helping individuals with Down syndrome build real independence is the kind of real-world impact that goes beyond textbooks.

— Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 5 July 2026
In the afternoon, students will partake in book clubs that read novels — a dying art in traditional public schools, driven in part by the increasing popularity of literacy curriculum programs that favor textbooks with short reading passages over whole books.

— Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 27 June 2026

Definition of textbooks

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Many anecdotes are from people who tried more conventional medicine for digestive issues and, from a place of desperation, decided to look elsewhere for solutions.

— Shelby Hartman, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
Other early texts describe the Dao through illustrative anecdotes.

— Michael Naparstek, The Conversation, 6 July 2026

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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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Melange, gradient, multicolor, degradé print, paillette, malfilato or flamed are a few examples of Italian fancy yarns.

— Footwear News, Footwear News, 2 July 2026
These longer fibers can be spun into finer, smoother and more durable yarns, securing Egyptian cotton’s place in high-end shirting, bedding, and premium fabrications.

— Kaja Grujic, Vogue, 4 June 2026

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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

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