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Both of these words can be used to mean 'new', but one is loaned from English.
I recall hearing somewhere that ニュー became a loanword because it has a
slightly different meaning to 新しい, but what exactly is this difference?

The first thought that would come to mind for me would be that ニュー is slightly
more casual-sounding, but that doesn't seem to me to be much of a reason as to
why it'd become a loanword.
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Difference in usage of 新しい and ニュー
> Difference in usage of 新しい and ニュー  
>  The first thought that would come to mind for me would be that ニュー is
> slightly more casual-sounding, but that doesn't seem to me to be much of a
> reason as to why it'd become a loanword.

I think it's about the limited usage.
[デジタル大辞泉](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/168110/meaning/m1u/%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC/)
has an entry for ニュー, and the use of おニューの(服 or etc.) was already old in my
childhood, but I think most of us don't really consider ニュー as part of
Japanese, comparing to ニュース that has very much become part of Japanese. I
think it's just, as the dictionary page also says (#2), it's also used to
modify a katakana word.
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