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new vs knew

new

Definitions

adjective

  1. in use after medieval times
  2. used of a living language; being the current stage in its development

Examples

When the new foods that came from the Americas - peppers, summer squash and especially tomatoes - took hold in the region, a number of closely related dishes were born, including what we call ratatouille - and a man from La Mancha calls pisto, an Ikarian Greek calls soufiko and a Turk calls turlu.

That's as it should be, as the newspaper has a global audience but not global printing presses.

I badly wanted the job, but knew that my age would probably tell against me.

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