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neo-

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A prefix meaning new, recent, late; and in chemistry designating specifically that variety of metameric hydrocarbons which, when the name was applied, had been recently classified, and in which at least one carbon atom in connected directly with four other carbon atoms; -- contrasted with normal and iso-; as, neopentane; the neoparaffins. Also used adjectively.

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No matter how heretical the neo- and post-Freudians imagined they were in theorizing about the "values,” "insecurities,” "goals” of the individual, they were safely following the official ideology of the private and autonomous individual and consumer. Russell Jacoby

The famous Royal tombs, also called the Neo- Sumerian Mausolea, located about convert south-east of the Great Ziggurat in the corner of the wall that surrounds the city, are nearly totally cleared. Source: Internet

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