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new-found
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
new-found fame
▪ Anna was finding it difficult to get used to her new-found fame.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
freedom
▪ But in the meantime he's enjoying his new-found freedom.
▪ As he walked, he wondered what he would do today with his new-found freedom.
▪ And she attended the Brit Awards on Monday wearing an unlocked handcuff-a symbol of her new-found freedom.
friend
▪ His new-found friend and ally had looked at him strangely, questioningly, but had asked nothing of young Shamlou's mission.
▪ The evening was drawing to a close and everybody was dancing with new-found friends.
▪ Among Matilda's new-found friends was the girl called Lavender.
▪ Today it is almost impossible to get a cup of tea with new-found friends in the station restaurant.
▪ Between them, my new-found friends told me the story.
▪ It was a long lunch in the presence of our new-found friend, the Rugby World Cup.
▪ I was supported in almost equal measure by a new-found friend.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ McClellan had trouble dealing with her new-found fame.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After positioning the wad in my cheek I sat around waiting for the hit, feeling smug with my new-found anthropological skills.
▪ And she attended the Brit Awards on Monday wearing an unlocked handcuff-a symbol of her new-found freedom.
▪ Grabbing a handful of fresh cartridges he began to reload the shotgun, fumbling a couple of times in his new-found haste.
▪ One amazing day; one new-found hero.
▪ She needed the new-found intimacy of the night translated into daytime terms.
▪ The drive back to Earl's Court was wretchedly uncomfortable, not even his new-found outrage managing to warm him.
▪ The evening was drawing to a close and everybody was dancing with new-found friends.
▪ Well don't for one minute think it has anything to do with a new-found concern for our wellbeing.
Wiktionary
new-found

a. (alternative spelling of newfound English)

Usage examples of "new-found".

Turning her back on the wagon lagger, The-Mare-that-Kills-with-Mercy set off over the Laughing Steppe, with her new-found niece and foster sister in tow.

In the heat of committee debate he would boldly oppose two revered academicians, knocking down their recommendations with his new-found knowledge, then return to the campus, where he would listen meekly as the Cal Tech professors lambasted the analytical procedures in his thesis.

She blushed, and lowered her head, pleased in spite of herself, in the depth of her new-found womanness, which they had released in her, at being the object of their admiration.

Rose came down, fifteen minutes later, with every curl smoothed and her most beruffled apron on, she found the boys loafing about the long hall, and paused on the half-way landing to take an observation, for till now she had not really examined her new-found cousins.

WSLJ, and her clientele had grown exponentially with her new-found infamy.

As the personal quality of Agassiz was the greatest of his powers, and as my life was greatly influenced by my immediate and enduring affection for him, I am tempted to set forth some incidents which show that my swift devotion to my new-found master was not due to the accidents of the situation, or to any boyish fancy.

In the heat of committee debate he would boldly oppose two revered academicians, knocking down their recommendations with his new-found knowledge, then return to the campus, where he would listen meekly as the Cal Tech professors lambasted the analytical procedures in his thesis.

Now she seized hold of the song in the supple lassoo of her voice and mated it with her new-found soul, so the song was utterly transformed and yet its essence did not change, in the same way a familiar face changes yet stays the same when it is freshly visited by love.

He told him of his great love for Eileen Stoker, of his father's short way with sons who loved Eileen Stoker, of his ecstasy on learning of Eileen Stoker's impending arrival in London, of his welcome to her when she did arrive and finally of the crushing blow which had befallen him, knocking his new-found happiness base over apex.

Miss Didion would dismiss the comparison as footling when compared to the inescapability of her new-found emotional rawness.

So it was that when she returned to their table at the Lobster Roll, the open-air restaurant in Napeague where they were having lunch, and sat down opposite Branding, her features had taken on the aspect of worry coupled with a new-found concentration.

He knew, too, that never again would a long day's work or a long night's weariness be quite without that new-found exaltation that had come to him through Pollyanna's eyes.

Yalena could see camp fires, now, at the refugee camp, where weary people with bruised souls were gathering around the cookfires to share what little was available to eat, sharing it with loved ones and new-found friends.

Toward the end of the afternoon he realized he was keenly anticipating visiting Rimini's to show off his new-found skill.

Terra, near the edge of the League heart-zone and the nearest League planet to the new-found planet Werel, had supplied all the colonists on this first ship.