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
A serial entrepreneur himself, he is the founder of Idealab, which spawned nearly 200 startups including as many as 10 unicorns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
Far from a predatory pattern of a serial abuser, Cohen characterized the encounters as ham-fisted and occasionally tone deaf bumblings of a “creep” with limited social skills.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Its serial number was DV-5-2, but that was not very useful.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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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
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
“Yes and no. The new evidence is a warm lead, obviously, but serials are tricky. They live for the cat-and-mouse, and they think twenty steps ahead.”
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
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