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  • noun Plural form of nova.

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Examples

  • For the past three years, DJ Neville C-- a.k.a. Som Records owner Neal Becton -- has hosted Brazilian Rhythms, giving music fans their monthly fix of samba and tropicália beats, spinning classic bossa novas and introducing curious clubgoers to the infectiously festive Brazilian sounds of forró, axe and pagode.

    Nightlife Agenda Going Out Guide 2010

  • E as respostas que nos oferece, não são respostas novas.

    Global Voices in English » Mozambique: House of the Flying Azagaias 2009

  • Here, in a move as unforeseen as it is refreshing, Ze, now 74, eschews his avant-garde impulses in favor of a largely straightforward set of acoustic guitar-based bossa novas that ranks among his most accessible - and beguiling - collection of originals to date.

    Lost tracks: Tom Ze, "Estudando a Bossa (Nordeste Plaza)" Bill Friskics-Warren 2011

  • For the past three years, DJ Neville C-- a.k.a. Som Records owner Neal Becton -- has hosted Brazilian Rhythms, giving music fans their monthly fix of samba and tropicália beats, spinning classic bossa novas and introducing curious clubgoers to the infectiously festive Brazilian sounds of forró, axe and pagode.

    Nightlife Agenda Post 2010

  • Such dwarf novas will not destroy either star, and may occur irregularly on time scales from a few days to tens of years.

    Dawn Before Nova | My[confined]Space 2009

  • Tom Ze leaves the experimenting behind for an album of straightforward acoustic guitar-based bossa novas.

    Lost tracks: Tom Ze, "Estudando a Bossa (Nordeste Plaza)" Bill Friskics-Warren 2011

  • And yet, despite the catalog of extinctions and poisons (including dioxins which will still be here when the sun finally novas, billions of years after humans have finally become extinct), it is a book laced through and through with hope.

    "No moon, no pale reflection." greygirlbeast 2010

  • And yet, despite the catalog of extinctions and poisons (including dioxins which will still be here when the sun finally novas, billions of years after humans have finally become extinct), it is a book laced through and through with hope.

    "No moon, no pale reflection." yuki_onna 2010

  • For the past three years, DJ Neville C - a.k.a. Som Records owner Neal Becton - has hosted Brazilian Rhythms, giving music fans their monthly fix of samba and tropicália beats, spinning classic bossa novas and introducing curious clubgoers to the infectiously festive Brazilian sounds of forró, axe and pagode.

    Nightlife Agenda Fritz Hahn 2010

  • Although a nova is much less energetic than a supernova, if recurrent novas are not violent enough to expel more gas than is falling in, mass will accumulate onto the white dwarf star until it passes its Chandrasekhar limit.

    Dawn Before Nova | My[confined]Space 2009

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