Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.

This is a new scratch on my car! The band just released a new album.

We turned up some new evidence from the old files.

My new car is much better than my previous one, even though it is older. We had been in our new house for five years by then.

New Bond Street is an extension of Bond Street.

Are you going to buy a new car or a second-hand one?

That shirt is dirty. Go and put on a new one. I feel like a new person after a good night's sleep. After the accident, I saw the world with new eyes.

My sister has a new baby, and our mother is excited to finally have a grandchild.

Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.

The idea was new to me. I need to meet new people.

'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.

Have you met the new guy in town? He is the new kid at school.

Don't worry that you're new at this job; you'll get better with time. I'm new at this business.

We expect to grow at 10% annually in the new decade.

new-born, new-formed, new-found, new-mown

They are scraping the site clean to build new.

The surname, "New," appears on both Hampshire Co., Virginia and Pendleton Co., Kentucky records.

In the Britannia "news" were worms, to be trodden on […]

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a new broom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners

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