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new-fan·gled
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Princeton's WordNet
newfangled, new-fangledadjective
(of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new
"newfangled ideas"; "she buys all these new-fangled machines and never uses them"
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new-fangled
New-fangled refers to something that is different from the norm, novel or innovative, often specifically implying newness for the sake of being unnecessarily complex or different. It's usually something that has been modified or introduced recently. It may refer to ideas, inventions, methods or trends. This term often carries a mildly negative, skeptical or dismissive connotation, used by people who prefer traditional or long-established ways.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of new-fangled in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of new-fangled in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of new-fangled in a Sentence
A doorway is an ambiguous phenomenon, a liminal spot in a person’s life. A door can be a choice, a possibility, a protection or an aperture to new-fangled values. It can mean a barrier, a prison or a gate to freedom. It can, however, vanish in the mist of unawareness by lack of social concern. At that moment, our freedom has become our jail and we feel locked up in our own liberty. Any exit has waned: the doorway has been absorbed in the stupor of our infatuation. ( “In the doorway” )
I can't use phones with recorders in them. So a lot of the new fangled stuff, for security reasons, I don't get.
There's a reason the Obama administration and The Trump administration, at least before this point, never made such audacious legal claims. The assertion that Congress has authorized the executive branch to use force against Iran is unsound. A bipartisan majority of both houses of Congress have rejected that view in just the past few weeks through congressional findings, the administration's position is dangerous. It holds Iran directly responsible for abuses committed by armed groups under a new-fangled theory that United States would not want to see applied to our support for armed forces including the Saudi bombing campaign in Yemen and the Syrian Kurdish forces' treatment of detainees.
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