serial
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“We don’t know what happened between Amy and her mother,” Luck said, before going on to call Acton “a serial fabulist who has some serious problems with the truth.”
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026
Trading cards and other collectibles are verified and assigned condition grades by PSA, which establishes their value and protects them by assigning serial numbers and certification information.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Police have not ruled out potential links between some of the Ekurhuleni deaths but have not said they are investigating a serial killer.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Natalie Gallagher has never been ambitious, so the chance to take an unusual job as a serial surrogate mother—allowing working women to avoid taking time off for pregnancy—seems ideal, until the day it’s suddenly over.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Our work is but a string of serial identity.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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South Africa's defence department said the navies were gathering "for an intensive programme of joint maritime safety operations, interoperability drills and maritime protection serials".
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026
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
The movie draws on a range of classics, from silent adventure serials to screwball mysteries like “The Thin Man” to the swashbuckling epics of Douglas Fairbanks and Errol Flynn.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2023
Much like the old serials that the new Indiana Jones movie is mimicking.
From Slate ● Jul. 5, 2023
While Mom and Dad visited the stores, Jim and I were deposited at the Pocahontas Theater to watch cowboy movies and adventure serials with hundreds of other miners’ kids.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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