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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
Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 Feb. 2025
The novel spans the day before, the day of, and the day after the ceremony.
—Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Feb. 2025
Dade Hayes, Deadline, 15 Feb. 2025
The future of this novel philanthropy model lies in profit as purpose, where every transaction can be an act of generosity, every consumer can be a force for good, and every dollar can be used not just once, but again and again, to build a better world.
—Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025
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The film is based on Christophe Boltanski’s Prix Femina-winning biographical novel of the same name, a fact of which we’re reminded numerous times via authorial voiceover.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 Feb. 2025
The novel spans the day before, the day of, and the day after the ceremony.
—Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
Charter Communications, the No. 1 pay-TV operator in the U.S. memorably clashed with Disney in 2023, leading to a 10-day blackout and a novel agreement including streaming distribution but also ending carriage for major cable channels like Freeform.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 15 Feb. 2025
The future of this novel philanthropy model lies in profit as purpose, where every transaction can be an act of generosity, every consumer can be a force for good, and every dollar can be used not just once, but again and again, to build a better world.
—Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for novel
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His underdog narrative, rising from micro-budget filmmaking to Academy acclaim, plays right into Hollywood’s favorite kind of success story.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
11 Feb. 2025
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Altman's comments come one day after his increasingly heated rival Musk made a shock $97.4 billion offer for OpenAI's assets, potentially changing the narrative around the technology's future.—
Ina Fried,
Axios,
11 Feb. 2025
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The next year, Hao Jingfang became the first Chinese woman to win a Hugo, for her novelette Folding Beijing.—
Yi-Ling Liu,
Wired,
9 Mar. 2021
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The backstory of the novelette kept picking at my brain.—
Andrew Liptak,
The Verge,
18 Sep. 2018
Adjective
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The dismissals come less than three weeks after a midair collision between an American Airlines regional jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter killed 67 people and brought new scrutiny to air traffic controllers and their workloads.—
Joey Garrison,
USA TODAY,
18 Feb. 2025
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The video discussion started with benchmarks, details about xAI's new data center and the desire to create a chatbot that didn't need to be politically correct.—
Ina Fried,
Axios,
18 Feb. 2025
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This Morning, This Evening (a portrait of a rural Alabama community in which Ross embedded himself), to Nickel Boys, his impressionistic bravura fiction feature debut about two Black boys sent to a reform school in Jim Crow–era Florida.—
Lisa Wong Macabasco,
Vogue,
22 Feb. 2025
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In spite of everything, the setting continues to compel me, as does the puzzle of Flores’s fiction, which frames the South Texas border region as a territory both physical and chimerical.—
David L. Ulin,
The Atlantic,
21 Feb. 2025
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Her monograph, Literature in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas is published by Columbia University Press (2022).—
Yásnaya Elena A. Gil (Tr. Ellen Jones),
The Dial,
26 Nov. 2024
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Gannaway’s monograph, Remember Me, was published last year by GOST Books.—
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harper's Magazine,
2 June 2024
Adjective
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Bitcoin can feel intimidating for newcomers, especially those unfamiliar with the complexities of crypto wallets, private keys, and exchanges.—
Sandy Carter,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
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His administration has brought attention to excessive spending—largely unfamiliar to those outside the Beltway—on woke, anti-American, or wasteful government programs at USAID, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Education thus far.—
Matt Klink,
Orange County Register,
19 Feb. 2025
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The story—Franklin had appreciatively sung back to her a line from the performance—might have been the lead anecdote in a profile of Erivo that sought to place her in a lineage of distinguished vocalists.—
Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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Distefano's comedy routines have previously mentioned his children, including anecdotes from their family life.—
Francesca Gariano,
People.com,
21 Feb. 2025
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But one of the most significant losses during the juicing process is the loss of dietary fiber, which is found in the skin, pulp and other solid parts of fruits and vegetables.—
Paul McClure
February 06,
New Atlas,
6 Feb. 2025
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In the late 1920s, Leslie Frances Silberberg (1905–1991) became one of the first women to write science fiction for pulp magazines.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
5 Feb. 2025
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“Novel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/novel. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.
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