How to Use episodic in a Sentence
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But even there, the episodic storytelling helps, as the show rarely gets bogged down for long by angst or despair.
—Zack Handlen, Variety, 2 May 2022
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Be sure to follow me on this blog for all my episodic TV reviews, game reviews and more.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 5 May 2022
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In truth, episodic memories are more than recollections of past events.
—György Buzsáki, Scientific American, 14 May 2022
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The movie’s worth it for Garbo alone, though its episodic nature gives the film a natural ceiling.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2024
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Steven has more moral authority than anyone else on episodic TV.
—Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 18 Jan. 2024
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That hasn’t stopped streamers from trying, and last year, Tencent debuted its own live-action, episodic take on Liu’s book.
—Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 21 Mar. 2024
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Meanwhile, the new scheme will raise the minimum budget for episodic programs while also creating a new category for limited series.
—Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 15 May 2024
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Many symptoms are episodic, becoming intense in unpredictable, recurrent flares that occur in response to triggers or for seemingly no reason at all.
—Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 15 July 2024
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What has been like to work on that scale in episodic TV?
—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 30 June 2023
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The novel is episodic, with a tricky structure and a shambling kind of plot.
—The New Yorker, 26 June 2024
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But the problem isn’t that The Last of Us is an episodic, monster-of-the-week adventure.
—Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 17 Feb. 2023
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Danny: For me, the difference from the movies is, this is episodic.
—Todd Plummer, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 June 2023
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Some lives have a long story arc, and others are episodic.
—Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 16 June 2022
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They’d be paid on an episodic basis for 24 episodes over a 40-week schedule.
—Wendy Leestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
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Branton had never been this far north and, at first, the episodic fog surprised her.
—Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Feb. 2023
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The episodic structure felt like a perfect fit to drop our EP with one episode per song and one music video per episode.
—Josh Chesler, SPIN, 24 Aug. 2022
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The episode that explored the aftermath won a WGA Award for episodic drama.
—Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2024
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Day-to-day episodic updates on social media helped to fill that void.
—Maddie Mortell, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Dec. 2022
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The rhythms may be episodic, but the ambience could hardly be more Assayesque.
—Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2022
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The first three episodes of Season 3 drop on June 3rd with weekly episodic releases the next five weeks for a total of eight.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 16 May 2022
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Like gallstone pain, the pain from kidney stones is often episodic and will come in waves, Dr. Brauning says.
—Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 6 Sep. 2022
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These tools work well for dealing with episodic attacks.
—Gina Neff rumman Chowdhury, WIRED, 28 Feb. 2023
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That kind of episodic drama wasn’t a good fit for a single article, which would need to be short and focused.
—Amanda Taub, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2023
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But Slack is fleeting and episodic, designed to transact but not to capture.
—Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
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The ads will be shown in episodic fashion each Monday in November.
—Dallas News, 11 Nov. 2022
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The bluffs recede at an average rate of six inches per year, but the erosion is episodic, and large pieces can fall away at any time.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2023
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And the sleep phase…puts these objects, these events…into the right context and in this way enhances a full blown episodic memory.
—Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2022
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The Scripter finalists were selected from a field of 80 films and 56 episodic series.
—Caroline Brew, Variety, 3 Mar. 2024
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Web series are episodic by nature; there is more than one episode and usually no less than three episodes.
—Susan Johnston, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2022
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The episodic release helped build the same sense of tumult and chaos as the actual characters are feeling.
—Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 28 Oct. 2022
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