novelty

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Sooner or later, the final picture is going to lose its novelty.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026

Editors often rejected them on the grounds that replication work lacks novelty or that the field had already moved on after a few years.

From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026

“This new republic had more continuity than novelty, since many politicians who were central to the dictatorship moved to central roles in the democratic government,” explains Gasparotto.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026

Travellers’ Tour Through the United States was a novelty that featured a hand-colored map of the then-24 states, peppered with towns and landmarks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026

That “heroic theory of invention,” as it is termed, is encouraged by patent law, because an applicant for a patent must prove the novelty of the invention submitted.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond