novelin a sentencegrouped by contextual meaning
novel as in: a novel situation
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We're looking for novel marketing ideas.novel = new and original
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It is a novel idea and just might work.
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The computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem.
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I found the flint and struck it over the waiting tinder as I had seen Glaucos do so often, but never attempted myself. It took me several tries, and when the flames began to catch and spread at last, I felt a novel satisfaction. (source)novel = new (not experienced before)
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He relished the role and concocted novel, grueling training regimens that his teammates still remember well. (source)novel = new (not previously seen)
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Finally, once some of the novelty had worn off, I could tell that Aech was ready to talk. (source)novelty = quality of being new
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Mutation, for example, is another mechanism— one way in which novelty gets introduced. (source)novelty = something new
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"You game for adventure?" asked the Duke of Westminster, won over by the novel idea. (source)novel = new and original
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The novelty had worn off. (source)novelty = quality of being new and therefore interesting
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The idea that she had a separate existence outside our household was a novel one, to say nothing of her having command of two languages. (source)novel = new
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The novelty of a pretrial capital defendant on death row seemed to motivate other prisoners to get in Walter's ear every day. (source)novelty = uniqueness
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Harry closed his eyes against the now blazing evening sky as the newsreader said, '— and finally, Bungy the budgie has found a novel way of keeping cool this summer.' (source)novel = new and original
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You've been thirteen for a month, so I suppose it doesn't seem such a novelty to you as it does to me. (source)novelty = new experience
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Not because he wanted to be forgiven for missing the meal—that didn't interest him at all, he might have rather enjoyed the punishment if it was done in some novel and unknown way. (source)novel = new and original
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Thus Roger Chillingworth scrutinised his patient carefully, both as he saw him in his ordinary life, keeping an accustomed pathway in the range of thoughts familiar to him, and as he appeared when thrown amidst other moral scenery, the novelty of which might call out something new to the surface of his character. (source)novelty = newness (in perspective)
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He hesitates at this novel idea. (source)novel = new and original
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And the film was based on a novel by Philip K. Dick, one of Halliday's favorite authors. (source)novel = book with a made-up story
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Give him long enough and he'll write a novel. (source)
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He spent the soggy afternoons working on homework projects and reading a cowboy novel. (source)
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The first novel sold about six copies, but it got great reviews. (source)novel = book with a made-up story
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The author of that novel was so thin, so frail, so comparatively optimistic! (source)
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She was in the latter stages of the novel, where the young priest was doubting his faith after meeting a strange and elegant woman. (source)
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Handwritten in neat block letters on a page torn from a novel by Nikolay Gogol, it read: S.O.S. I NEED YOUR HELP. (source)
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Ruefully Josh says, "The guys from the graphic-novel club are going as different fantasy-book characters." (source)
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One of their most heated debates in that first year was over a novel. (source)
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It was in the Pine-Sol-scented office of that furniture warehouse that I began my first novel. (source)
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Late one evening she took her first novel, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, from Ma's bookshelf and read about love. (source)
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He raised the subject of the novel that the farmer's son was reading, thinking that, he wrote, "if she liked books, she must understand the mind and hardship of human life." (source)
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Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee — even the ones who'd never thought of opening a novel before. (source)
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