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New World
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New World as in:  Columbus's voyage to the New World

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    Let the 13 States, as a Union, erect one great American system that controls all transatlantic force or influence, and dictate how the old and new world will be connected.  (source)
    new world = the Americas (North, South, and Central with nearby islands) (also known as the Western Hemisphere -- which was new to Europe in the 16th century)
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    "I've been a sheep-farmer, stock-breeder, other trades besides, away in the new world," said he; "many a thousand mile of stormy water off from this."  (source)
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    Even if they were to leave Europe and inhabit the deserts of the new world, yet one of the first results of those sympathies for which the daemon thirsted would be children, and a race of devils would be propagated upon the earth who might make the very existence of the species of man a condition precarious and full of terror.  (source)
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    We once talked about how cool it was that Will remained himself in his new world.†  (source)
    new world = Western Hemisphere (the Americas)
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    I hadn't yet grasped the rules of this new world.†  (source)
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    You can't just sit around waiting for the new world to take it with you.†  (source)
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    O brave new world, that has such people in't!†  (source)
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    It seemed an ordinary door—not at all like the entrance to a new world.†  (source)
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    We must find in the galaxy a new world to emigrate to.†  (source)
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    While I was lying in that bed waiting to take my first steps in a new world, Gordon Brown, the UN special envoy for education and former prime minister of Britain, had launched a petition under the slogan "I am Malala" to demand no child be denied a school by 2015.†  (source)
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    Then she stuck me in a corner and went back to work, leaving me to explore an entirely new world, very different from the one I'd known up until then.†  (source)
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    I am in an altogether new world now.†  (source)
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    Although his new world at the moment was just an empty marketplace, he had already seen it when it was teeming with life, and he would never forget it.†  (source)
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    Looking around, he sought his sheep, and then realized that he was in a new world.  (source)
    new world = non-specific meaning using the most basic sense of the words
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    And that fact of life had created a bizarre new world of industrial espionage.  (source)
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    The old queen kissed her to sleep with the gentle poison in her lips, then wrapped her in threads from her belly, and commanded her to become herself, to become a new city, a new world, to give birth to many queens and many worlds.  (source)
    new world = a world that is new
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    But she thought that if Gilbert had ever walked home with her from the train, over the crisp fields and along the ferny byways, they might have had many and merry and interesting conversations about the new world that was opening around them and their hopes and ambitions therein.  (source)
    new world = non-specific meaning using the most basic sense of the words
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    It didn't work economically, it didn't work intellectually, and it didn't fit the new world that was emerging.  (source)
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    Everywhere, extensive and elaborate planting emphasized the feeling that they were entering a new world, a prehistoric tropical world, and leaving the normal world behind.  (source)
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    He worked hard on the new world, governing by persuasion rather than fiat, and working as hard as anyone at the tasks involved in setting up a self-sustaining economy.  (source)
    new world = a world that was new
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