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newly

/ˈnuli/ adverb B1
  1. Very recently/lately; in the immediate past. · She smelled the newly budding flowers.
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Thus he came along, supporting himself on a curiously carved stick, his aged countenance lit up with happiness, looking for all the world like one of the aged dandies of 1796, parading the newly opened gardens of the Luxembourg and Tuileries.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 22 · C1
A FARMER placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a number of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 8 · B2
SOME CRANES made their feeding grounds on some plowlands newly sown with wheat.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 11 · B2
When all this was done, and the army disciplined, and the herald Mouse had duly proclaimed war by challenging the Weasels, the newly chosen generals bound their heads with straws, that they might be more conspicuous to all their troops.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 38 · B2

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