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new-fangled
adjective as in newfangled
Example Sentences
Bischoff’s specializes in a form of hybrid taxidermy, incorporating traditional techniques with the more new-fangled freeze-drying process.
“Experts tracing how language has evolved from ancient times to the present have concluded there is a taboo on the fly agaric – everyone talks about the apple but that’s a new-fangled innovation that only appeared in the 18th century. There wasn’t an apple in the Bible originally, it was just the forbidden fruit. Perhaps it was more comfortable to think of them as apples.”
In January, Frank Gehry turned his incomparable Walt Disney Concert Hall into a new-fangled immersive 21st-century Wagner shrine with a set he designed to give Gustavo Dudamel, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and singers wondrous expressive free rein in a staged production of “Das Rheingold.”
His prototype was featured in a show called “Happy Happenings” at the San Francisco Cannery art gallery that summer and articles about a new-fangled waterbed soon were appearing in newspapers and magazines across the country.
"Mountain Justice" pits a hillbilly father against his daughter who, Nugent wrote, “picked up her new-fangled notions at a nurses' training school.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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