Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb Once more; again.
- adverb In a new and different way, form, or manner.
from The Century Dictionary.
- As a new or a repeated act; by way of renewal; in a new form or manner; over again; once more; afresh: always implying some prior act of the same kind: as, to arm anew; to build a house anew from the foundation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Over again; another time; in a new form; afresh
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb literary, poetic or formal
Again ,once more .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb again but in a new or different way
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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So, as Tea Partiers and newly re-energized Republicans take up the term anew, now's a perfect time to ask: What is freedom, anyway?
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Frances Moore Lapp 2010
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The final line, transferred here from Frankford to Susan with venomous impact, makes us ponder the title anew.
Evening Standard - Home Fiona Mountford 2011
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The final line, transferred here from Frankford to Susan with venomous impact, makes us ponder the title anew.
Evening Standard - Home Fiona Mountford 2011
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The final line, transferred here from Frankford to Susan with venomous impact, makes us ponder the title anew.
Evening Standard - Home Fiona Mountford 2011
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In a future where Mother Earth has cast her children to the distant stars to begin anew and colonize the cosmos, the planet remains depleted of natural resources.
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MB Promotes Literacy through Book Project Helping young people create powerful relationships with books through personal experience of taking them apart and recreating them anew is one step towards changing attitudes.
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And so I jumped at your analogy, ignoring the Neibuhrian incongruity between individual and nation that makes earning our way off our meds something for individuals to aspire to, but for nations never to finally accomplish, each succeeding generation needing to reclimb that mountain anew, given base human nature.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Activist Government” and the Rights of Minorities 2010
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MB Promotes Literacy through Book Project Helping young people create powerful relationships with books through personal experience of taking them apart and recreating them anew is one step towards changing attitudes.
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Much of the literature of Africa continues to be a testament of turmoil, oppression, corrupt ‘democratic’ dictatorships born anew from the gnarled roots of colonialism and the word for existence: apartheid.
July « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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Much of the literature of Africa continues to be a testament of turmoil, oppression, corrupt ‘democratic’ dictatorships born anew from the gnarled roots of colonialism and the word for existence: apartheid.
chidozie chukwubuike | the decoration « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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