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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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Now to Baloo’s word I will add one bull, and a fat one, newly killed, not half a mile from here, if ye will accept the man’s cub according to the Law.
The Jungle Book, p. 11 · B2
Have a care, manling, that I do not mistake thee for a monkey some twilight when I have newly changed my coat.”
The Jungle Book, p. 59 · B2
She had an odd, newly awakened consciousness under all her outraged dignity that the half-shy, half-eager expression in Gilbert’s hazel eyes was something that was very good to see.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 227 · C1
While these newly-born notions were passing in their heads, the perturbation of Elizabeth’s feelings was every moment increasing.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 291 · B2

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