the newly wed/weds ? | UsingEnglish ESL Forum

"to call a couple who has just gotten married" Linguistically, although ''couple'' is singular you are talking about two people and this sounds awkward. Listeners know that you

2025 Jun 18

a newly-graduated student | WordReference Forums

Hi, Can you please help review these two sentences and let me know if there is any mistake? Do they make sense to you? 1)We want to find a newly-graduated student for

2025 Apr 09

newly designed or new design | UsingEnglish ESL Forum

I am going to make up two similar sentences. (1) The newly designed banknote is colorful. (2) The new design banknote is colorful. Which one is grammatically correct? Thanks

2024 Mar 11

Newborn / newly born

I think I might use ''newly born'' there, as the combination suggests ''newly created'', ''re-born'' and so on, whereas the usual word ''newborn'' more strongly suggests a baby. But all

2025 Feb 22

the newly minted minister

"Newly minted" sounds cute but odd. Normally only coins and medals are minted (or a person can be described informally as "minted" if they''re filthy rich! ). But minister of the

2025 Jan 23

newly built

the mall newly built near the station Of course once a mall is built near a station, it tends to stay near the station (barring earthquakes and freak weather), so these are

2025 Dec 07