new territory
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3.7
- noun
- /nuː ˈtɛrɪtɔri/
:
territorio inexplorado
- The explorers ventured into new territory that had never been mapped before.
- explore new territory
- chart new territory
- move into new territory
Soon you find yourself deep in new territory.
- Soon you find yourself deep in new territory.
- How do you kind of keep that confidence and and grit within these new territories that we've never explored?
- I feel like we're in completely new territory as a country and very, very frightening territory.
- And because it's new territory to be explored, I know what it's like to do this other thing.
- If you are mapping new territory, then how do you know if you're going to be able to succeed or not?
- So from all of those techniques from X-ray crystallography applied to salt, we have moved to brand new territory.
- And if the Nazi war machine were to stop conquering, were to stop taking new territory, the entire, the entire Nazi economy would collapse.
- And this may be such new territory to you that you don't know what to do with it.
- So and this routing meaning entering into new territory.
- So I found myself in new territory.
- But it's like, I think that, you know, it's new territory, dude.
Examples
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But of course, when entering new territory, it's impossible to foresee everything.
Academic text (2011) -
It was new territory for us.
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Yes, yeah, it's a huge, huge new territory for research I think.
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As I said before, this is new territory.
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It's new territory for me.
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Right now, we're heading into new territory.
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Our era has opened up new territory for artists and their audiences.
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I feel like we're in completely new territory as a country and very, very frightening territory.
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"Since nutrition education has not been taught this way before, evaluating it is new territory," she says.
Academic text (2004) -
What is most important for the psychoacoustician is that this technology has opened a large new territory for controlled experiments.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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5.1
A situation that offers new chances and experiences
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4.9
Land at the edge of settled areas next to wild land
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6.8
A new, not familiar situation that may have unknown risks
An area that no one has explored or seen before
Antonyms
How Familiar
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward adjective + noun composition: 'new' (recent/unfamiliar) modifying 'territory' (an area), so a learner who knows both words can readily infer it refers to an unfamiliar or recently encountered area. This compositional pattern (literal or lightly metaphorical extension, as in 'new area of knowledge') is common cross-linguistically and thus will be transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
New territory may come from the image of explorers finding land they had not seen before. The new territory was unknown ground, so today the phrase means going into something 'unknown' or unfamiliar.