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
Okla Jones, Essence, 14 July 2025
That’s how many visits readers made to the web novel and webtoon that inspired the film Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy.
—Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 2 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
Set in Burundi, the novel revolves around a hacker and a cosmic being—Martyr_Loser_King and Neptune Frost—who rise from the ruins of global exploitation to launch a digital insurrection.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 14 July 2025
That’s how many visits readers made to the web novel and webtoon that inspired the film Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy.
—Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 2 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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That's why the family was so heartened to welcome back customers, old and new.—
Bahar Anooshahr,
AZCentral.com,
24 July 2025
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The sports arena floated as a solution to save the State Fair site never materialized, but new buildings did begin to replace the old on the fairgrounds, including a 1,000-seat amphitheater in 1974 and a new Coliseum in 1976.—
Chris Foran,
jsonline.com,
24 July 2025
Noun
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There are subtle transitions in this narrative, carefully plotted points of reference which keep the story from ever feeling disjointed or abrupt.—
Rachel Elspeth Gross,
Forbes.com,
20 July 2025
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Consequently, that makes a weaker conclusion for the narrative, one the series can only wrap up by having Paul use his pistol on himself and take a tumble into rushing river waters.—
Andy Crump,
Time,
20 July 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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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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Girl, 1983 is still more deft in its experiments, subverting conventional ideas about fiction’s use of the truth.—
Rachel Vorona Cote,
The Atlantic,
15 July 2025
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That is why this fiction is not built on facts, but rather on traversing the labyrinths of memory.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
15 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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This is all to say that what is unprecedented in scale is not altogether without precedent.—
Lauren Michele Jackson,
New Yorker,
26 July 2025
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This level of support by the federal government for a mining company is unprecedented, said Gracelin Baskaran, an expert on critical minerals at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.—
Spencer Kimball,
CNBC,
26 July 2025
Noun
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Include a brief personal anecdote that humanizes me, then end with a clear call to action encouraging people to connect or reach out.—
Caroline Castrillon,
Forbes.com,
13 July 2025
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This anecdote will become relevant approximately halfway through our interview below, which has been edited and condensed (for aesthetic purposes).—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
9 July 2025
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“Novel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/novel. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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