periodical
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El Niño, a pattern of periodical sea surface warming, affects weather systems globally.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The shutdown already resulted in staffing shortages and periodical flight delays.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025
“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
Several editors at the Columbia Law Review described the board’s intervention as an unprecedented breach of editorial independence at the periodical, which is run by students at Columbia Law School.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
Just before Christmas, London’s leading spiritual periodical published an article, “Mediumship of a Baby.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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
For example, the University of Chicago now spends more than $100,000 annually on buying books and periodicals through the Library of Congress field office in Delhi.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2024
By the time the annual cicadas come out, the periodicals are long dead.
From Salon ● May 16, 2024
Before World, a biweekly, was launched in 1986, religious periodicals were often cheaply mimeographed and filled with church news.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
I had gone to Mee Lung Dry Goods over the weekend and scoured all the periodicals for advertisements and photographs.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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