serial
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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
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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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