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noun Informal.

a new or changed situation: Once we're out of debt it'll be a whole new ball game.

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The influential al Qaeda propagandist, who was born in New Mexico, died in a U.S. drone strike later that year.
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And to tell the truth, she couldn't help wishing he could see, so he could make the game livelier.
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Descending the Alps to the east or south into Piedmont, a new world lies around and before you.
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Here began indeed, in the drab surroundings of the workshop, in the silent mystery of the laboratory, the magic of the new age.
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Joe looked at her with a smile, his face still solemn and serious for all its youth and the fires of new-lit hope behind his eyes.
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There seems something in that also which I could spare only very reluctantly from a new Bible in the world.
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