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serializesimple
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serializessimple
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have serializedperfect
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has serializedperfect
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am serializingprogressive
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are serializingprogressive
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is serializingprogressive
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have been serializingperfect progressive
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has been serializingperfect progressive
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serializedsimple
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had serializedperfect
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was serializingprogressive
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were serializingprogressive
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had been serializingperfect progressive
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Etymology
Origin of serialize
Example Sentences
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Even the plays’ length is turned to good effect in a format that allows you to serialize the experience.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2021
In 1967, a few months after the notable African-American writer Samuel Delany won a Nebula Award, he wrote to Analog magazine, seeking to serialize a daring, experimental space opera he had written, called “Nova.”
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 20, 2020
"If we weren't doing that, for certain we would want to serialize this, right? We would want to build over time until such a point where things started to really gel."
From The Verge ● Mar. 15, 2016
He wants to bring Hazel back to the big city, where he plans to serialize her story for his daily rag, The Morning Star.
From BusinessWeek ● Jan. 9, 2012
Some of them with great travail wrote, like the rest, the sort of trash that the newspapers serialize.
From Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House by Gilbert Cannan
In alternating chapters, the staff of the Little Review, an experimental literary magazine in New York, serializes the novel despite growing resistance from the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2014
That may be," he granted, "but it is not fiction and nothing serializes but fiction.
From A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland
At the tail end of his career, Mandell lent his voice to several serialized podcast productions, including “Romeo and Juliet” in which he voiced Friar Laurence, “Anthem: Homunculus” and “A Voice From Darkness.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
The former wife of Jeff Bezos is unspooling an 80,000-word novel in serialized form after a decade away from publishing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Canadian writer Brendon Holder, who writes a popular tech and culture newsletter called Loosey, got thousands of new followers after releasing a serialized novella called “Come If You Want” on Substack last summer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Ellis fictionalized his Buckley School years for the novel, originally released as a serialized audiobook on his podcast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
It had been serialized in a magazine in 1883, and was published as a book in early 1884.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
He arrived in the early 1990s when the New Yorker picked him from the slush pile and began serializing excerpts of what would become “The End of Vandalism.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
Eliot, Gertrude Stein and others, most famously serializing James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” a decision that made her a target of censors and conservatives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025
TikTokers dangle tantalizing bits of stories in front of viewers with caveats of "like for part 2" or by serializing their content.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2022
She also suggested serializing the story online, or publishing it as a kind of blind item, three people who attended the meeting told me.
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2020
His last story, for instance, that his London agent was serializing in several countries—yes, it was quite possible some instant information was wanted about it.
From In the Mist of the Mountains by J. Macfarlane
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