periodical
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The U.S., where there are both annual and periodical cicada swarms, tends to take a more laissez-faire approach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
El Niño, a pattern of periodical sea surface warming, affects weather systems globally.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
“Have they read the harrowing history of their ancestors’ bondage in Egypt to no purpose?” one writer in a Jewish periodical asked of pro-slavery Jews.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2025
This trend is seen with periodical comic books too, with only four franchises outside of Marvel and DC able to crack the top 50 comics of 2024.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025
She went about her business, sitting at the table writing an article for her periodical, a furrow of fierce concentration on her face.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
Southern postmasters thus continued to withhold antislavery periodicals, with the tacit approval of Jackson protégé Kendall.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026
We learn that Renoir’s scenes of contemporary life often served as illustrations for books and periodicals, and discover the influence of the requirements of reproduction on his technique.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025
Lowrider magazine was once among the bestselling newsstand automotive periodicals in the country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2025
High-end niche periodicals are popping up, but the trend might be most evident in a burst of small-batch, independent outdoors magazines like Adventure Journal, Mountain Gazette, Summit Journal and Ori.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2024
Bobby, who was becoming Collins’s pupil, had been studying past and present chess games for years and had begun to dip into Collins’s library of hundreds of books and periodicals.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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