newly-open / opened

0 "opened", definitely. Some would get rid of the hyphen, but I like it here. 0-

0Most American style guides will tell you to not use the hyphen with -ly words.02br
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00 (And I completely agree with Philip's "opened.")0-

0Hi, sorry to jump in again. I'm wondering if the following carries the same meaning as the original. For some reason, I don't like the adjective 'newly opened'. Is it a common phrase by the way?02br
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00XYZ is a new store in town.0-

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10Most American style guides will tell you to not use the hyphen with -ly words.12br
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10Nowadays, even in BrE, the hyphen is not required. 0-

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10Hi, sorry to jump in again. I'm wondering if the following carries the same meaning as the original. For some reason, I don't like the adjective 'newly opened'. Is it a common phrase by the way?12br
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10XYZ is a new store in town. (New store is not the same as newly-opened store. 

0YL, it's very rare that I disagree with your explantions, but if a newly opened store says that it opened recently, when do you think the new store opened? I would say "recently"! Doesn't "new" have the same meaning for you? 02br
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00The only thing I can think of is that you could probably refer to a "new store" before it actually opens. "The Grammar Boutique is the new s

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10YL, it's very rare that I disagree with your explantions, but if a newly opened store says that it opened recently, when do you think the new store opened? I would say "recently"! Doesn't "new" have the same meaning for you? 12br
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10The only thing I can think of is that you could

0It depends on context, but 99% of the time, unless I knew for sure that it wasn't opened yet, if someone said "It's that newly opened store in town" and "It's the new store in town" they would have the exact same meaning.0-

0Thank you guys for discussing this topic. I would conclude that newly opened and new store have the same meaning and this could be the reason I rarely hear people use the phrase newly opened. Actually, in what contexts, would someone use the phrase since it's almost replaceable with simply new?0-

0I would suggest that you are more likely to encounter "newly opened" in writing, and not in speech. Perhaps in a newspaper, in a restaurant review or in the busines section.0-