periodical
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The shutdown already resulted in staffing shortages and periodical flight delays.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025
An entire notebook is devoted to The Spectator, a daily periodical that ran for 555 issues between 1711 and 1712 commenting on the manners and fads of London society.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 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
“We’re on a gradually warming planet,” and the periodical cicadas know it, according to Shockley.
From Salon ● May 16, 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
At central Amsterdam’s landmark Athanaeum bookstore, whose eclectic periodicals draw a loyal clientele from across Europe, customers and staff alike were briefly mystified by the long queues at a nearby koekmakerij — a cookie shop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2024
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
By the time the annual cicadas come out, the periodicals are long dead.
From Salon ● May 16, 2024
There were the armies of reference clerks whose job was simply to draw up lists of books and periodicals which were due for recall.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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