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serial

[seer-ee-uhl] / ˈsɪər i əl /


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An unbreakable high school cheerleader, she embraced the role of hero, facing pushback from a shadowy government group, serial killers and a twisted family dynamic.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

The serial tech founder, who has lived outside Russia for years and holds French and United Arab Emirates passports, has frequently clashed with the Russian authorities as Moscow has tightened its grip on the internet.

From Barron's Jul. 30, 2026

South Korea’s romanticized ‘marriage of the century’ blew up in a real-life serial drama everybody is calling the divorce of the century.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

As Kreitzman pointed out: "I'm an artist, not a serial killer."

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

It was published by the Central Committee of the Komsomol in 1939, and anybody who couldn’t get hold of the physical book could read it as a serial through the hugely popular program Newspaper Novels.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

So like the serials of the silent era, we’re left, for the moment at least, with a cliffhanger.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 17, 2025

Much like the old serials that the new Indiana Jones movie is mimicking.

From Slate Jul. 5, 2023

Squashing its programming into Max, along with ghost hunters and home improvement serials, won’t immediately affect HBO originals.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 12, 2023

He pasted in pages from vampire serials, war reporting, tobacco wrappers, even a mirror.

From New York Times Nov. 11, 2022

Then there was Myrna, who had been appearing to him in a series of dreams that was taking the form of the old Batman serials that he had seen at the Prytania as a child.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole




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