New wave and Style

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New wave noun - Any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts).

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Style and new wave are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Style" instead a noun phrase "New wave".

Style noun - A practice or interest that is very popular for a short time.

Usage example: parents who were very relieved when the style for having one's nose pierced faded

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New wave and style are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "New wave" instead a noun "Style".

Nearby Words: stylish, styling, styled, stylized, sty

Ever the experimentalists, New Wavers embraced the new medium, and pretty soon New Wave was a visual style too.

Source: New Wave Music
But instead of electronic dance music, their style was "Ennio Morricone meets New Wave".

Source: Music / Wall of Voodoo
Finally, the Syrinx, the last unlockable ship, is similar to the Phoenix, but with a new Wave Shot that, instead of firing a three-way spread of crescent wave bursts, fires a microwave-style laser that incinerates everything in its path and makes waves of "popcorn" enemies all but trivial.

Source: Game Breaker / Shoot'em Ups

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