novelty

“I’d say we’ve had probably double the travelers and double the spending,” said Gar Engman, owner of TeePee Curios, a novelty shop in Tucumcari, N.M., comparing this year with 2025.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

Restaurant staff say the novelty has brought a surge in customers -- some travelling from across the sprawling port city to meet the robots.

From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026

"We do not pursue projects based on commercial opportunity or research novelty alone; our efforts must advance our mission. "

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective tales “combined a sense of immediate novelty with a reassuring regularity of form.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

I’m eating a happy-face lollipop and admiring the turquoise-framed door on Jeremy’s split-level bungalow when my new cell phone rings, jolting me with its novelty.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

I decided to speak, both because that’s how therapy is typically carried out, and because I wanted to get a sense of this space’s technical novelties.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

These two stories might seem like unrelated novelties — a viral toy and a tech-bro flex from a provincial government.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

Like every year, robots are a major presence at CES, with companies hoping they will break into the mainstream as useful devices instead of novelties.

From Barron's ● Jan. 7, 2026

Youn sells mostly kitchenwares and other novelties, including ceramic teapots made in Korea and bird boxes handcrafted in France.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2025

Perhaps it was because I was a novelty here, where novelties were few and far between.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer