How to Use serialize in a Sentence
serialize
verb- Her story was serialized in the magazine.
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The episodes will be serialized, instead of a case-of-the-week.
—Amanda Mitchell, Marie Claire, 29 Oct. 2018
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First serialized in 1897, The War of the Worlds was published as a book the following year and has remained in print ever since.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 30 Sep. 2019
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His new idea was to reorder the three hundred pages, reorder in order to serialize, if that was O.K. with me.
—Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, The New Yorker, 2 May 2022
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There’s not a lot of breathing room in the world of 10-episode (or less) seasons, especially since so many of them are strictly serialized.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2023
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Serialized publication of Bambi, a Life in the Woods began on this day in 1922.
—Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 15 Aug. 2017
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Nike made the clever move of serializing the line from the start, allowing it to keep releasing new iterations to fans who bought them up.
—Marc Bain, Quartz, 21 Dec. 2019
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If a licensed dealer acquires a ghost gun, the rule will require them to serialize it before re-selling it.
—Armando Garcia, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2022
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The work, by late veteran journalist and diarist Kenneth Rose, has been serialized in the Daily Mail and sheds new light on some of the behind-the-scenes thinking of the royals.
—Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 6 Nov. 2019
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The film is adapted from a webtoon of the same name that was serialized on the Comico platform in Korea and Japan, and for a time ranked in popularity on the Korean platform.
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 6 Oct. 2023
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Coronabonds would serialize the reward (and mutual debts) of a Union where anyone can place their social politics on the tab of more fiscally alert states.
—Peter Rough, National Review, 22 Apr. 2020
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Many Japanese grew up with Astro Boy, the robotic child with X-ray vision and an ability to fly that was created in the 1950s and serialized in manga comics and television.
—Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2019
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One of the galleys discovered in their apartment was a saga of a small-town rabbi’s family that had been serialized in Yiddish newspapers but never published in book form.
—Joseph Berger, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2023
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And with something serialized like Sleepy Hollow, which is entering its fourth season, but its first featuring you, what keeps it exciting?
—Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 16 Feb. 2017
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This serialized podcast tells the story of an 8-year-old boy living on an interplanetary space station who explores the galaxy and solves mysteries with his friends.
—Frannie Ucciferri, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2019
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Whereas in the five-volume novels that were serialized in the magazine Kalki, the second book centers around Nandini and two other characters, but in the film the scheming takes centerstage.
—Shalini Dore, Variety, 4 May 2023
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But is there anything about the current state of the anime industry that concerns you? Some of the most successful manga series today are serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine.
—Mark Schilling, Variety, 19 Feb. 2023
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’’ was published in book form after being serialized.
—BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2018
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After settling a case with the city of Los Angeles earlier this year, Polymer80 also cannot sell gun kits in California without serializing parts and performing background checks.
—Tom Jackman and Emily Davies, Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2023
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Dickens intended the tale, after all, as popular entertainment, serialized over the course of two years and highly indulgent of gaudy melodrama.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 4 May 2023
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Not long after an updated, edgy version of classic musical Oklahoma! debuted on Broadway, news landed that another revival of the beloved show was being planned—and this time, the story will be serialized.
—Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 17 Apr. 2019
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But in our age of serialized, bingeable entertainment, with twist following twist in a bid to hold our waning attention spans, there’s something refreshingly bold and optimistic about a show made up only of beginnings.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 31 May 2017
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Most of Netflix’s original series are intensely serialized, demanding your attention from one plot point to the next, whether or not the individual points are interesting.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2023
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Most of Netflix’s original series are intensely serialized, demanding your attention from one plot point to the next, whether or not the individual points are interesting.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2023
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That's not even counting competitive online games that functionally never end thanks to regular infusions of new content—the video game equivalent of an epic fantasy series or serialized comic book.
—Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 15 Feb. 2018
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Most serialized television involves setting up big, epic changes that are then almost immediately reversed.
—Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 27 Apr. 2018
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Additionally, Polymer80 is prohibited from selling gun kits in the state without serializing parts and performing background checks.
—Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
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There are serialized shows (aka movies divided into chapters), documentaries, and reality shows.
—cleveland, 6 Apr. 2020
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For its processors, Intel has always documented lfence as having semi-serializing behavior.
—Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2018
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