They are a newly married couple.
That is a newly acquired habit.
Here is where we keep the newly arrived merchandise.
The room is newly painted.
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Larval black-legged ticks, newly hatched and free of infection, begin questing for their first blood meal.—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025 Their newly single mother went off for a year to train as a mountain guide, leaving the girls with their gentle, ineffectual hippie father.—Leslie Camhi, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2025 This is the highest tariff newly levied among the countries in South Asia—with India faced with a 27 percent duty; Pakistan 29 percent and Bangladesh 37 percent.—Mayu Saini, Sourcing Journal, 4 Apr. 2025 They were appointed by Amazon MGM’s head of film Courtenay Valenti, who newly reports to chair Mike Hopkins after Jen Salke’s exit as studio chief.—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 3 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for newly
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Time Traveler
The first known use of newly was
before the 12th century
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