New Country

noun

1. a style of country music that emerged in the late 1980s characterized by a more contemporary sound and down-to-earth rather than sentimental lyrics

Example Sentences

Velasco helped shape Mexico’s national identity much like his near-contemporaries of the Hudson River School did for the U.S.—but with a difference: American artists idealized the grandeur and promise of a new country with a Manifest Destiny, whereas Velasco’s glorious vistas proudly emphasized Mexico’s ancient roots in pre-Hispanic civilizations.

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"Decisions - that will not always be comfortable for our party. Yet at the end of this hard road there will be a new country, a fairer country, a land of dignity and respect."

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“We are doing everything in our power to make sure that anyone who is offered the privilege of becoming an American citizen fulfills their obligation to their new country,” Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.

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“They’re people who go to a whole new country to learn the language and a whole new environment, in search of a better life, and it’s considered illegal.”

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Germany said, “Listen, we have all these German citizens living in this new country of Czechoslovakia. They’re not being treated right. We want them to become part of Germany.”

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