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
Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 28 July 2025
This début novel is a chronicle of Rocinha, a favela in Rio de Janeiro, and follows the efforts of a group of male friends to score drugs, make a few dollars, and inch toward a better life.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 11 July 2025
Last year, Speicher conceived a novel way to help teens on the reservation: sharing his love of heavy music.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 10 July 2025
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Adjective
Those Asimov novels featured hyperrational heroes, many of them engineers, who saved humanity by building space colonies where civilization could begin anew.
—Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 28 July 2025
This début novel is a chronicle of Rocinha, a favela in Rio de Janeiro, and follows the efforts of a group of male friends to score drugs, make a few dollars, and inch toward a better life.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
Noun
The 139-footer features a novel layout that defies traditional superyacht design.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 11 July 2025
Last year, Speicher conceived a novel way to help teens on the reservation: sharing his love of heavy music.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 10 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for novel
Adjective
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Ella Stiller, the daughter of Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor, was introduced as a new character on last week's episode of SATC sequel series And Just Like That.—
Ryan Coleman Updated,
EW.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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Why bother, when there’s a big and growing market out there for innovative ways to link up pets, pet lovers and new technology?—
Russell Flannery,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
Noun
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There is a bigger lesson to be learned from the controversy: marketers no longer control the narrative.—
Kian Bakhtiari,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
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Their search for those grandchildren, and everything that the search unravelled, is the subject of the book, which for the first time brings the plight of these women into an English-language nonfiction narrative.—
Graciela Mochkofsky,
New Yorker,
31 July 2025
Noun
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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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People unfamiliar with certain disasters — such as out-of-town visitors caught in the Hill Country flooding — may be at higher risk during emergencies.—
Bayliss Wagner,
Austin American Statesman,
25 July 2025
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The short clip features Maya locking herself in the bathroom of an unfamiliar home when all of a sudden an axe comes flying through the closed door.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
24 July 2025
Noun
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Stablecoins versus traditional cross-border payments: Separating truth from fiction For the last few years, the narrative from many in the stablecoin space has been that the technology is inherently cheaper and faster than established cross-border payments solutions.—
Daniel Webber,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
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Because his reality emerges from fiction, Musk is untethered from any sense of earthly constraints.—
Franklin Foer,
The Atlantic,
28 July 2025
Noun
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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
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Trained initially as an economist, Salgado spent much of his long career documenting the effects of heavy industry on the environment, from a monograph on gold mining in his native Brazil to a book on oil fires in Kuwait.—
Max Saltman,
CNN Money,
23 May 2025
Adjective
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His administration's unprecedented deal with Columbia University in New York City has put many of its Ivy League peers in a tough spot.—
Zachary Schermele,
USA Today,
26 July 2025
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This is all to say that what is unprecedented in scale is not altogether without precedent.—
Lauren Michele Jackson,
New Yorker,
26 July 2025
Noun
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That railroad has not commented on the reports, with Berkshire CEO and chairman Warren Buffett denying the anecdote that BNSF and Goldman Sachs have been in contact.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
25 July 2025
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Include original data, expert quotes, or vivid anecdotes.—
Rhea Wessel,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
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“Novel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/novel. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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