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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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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
Of course, if selectively serializing instructions doesn’t work, we’re going to have to serialize everything, which will dramatically slow down modern processors.
From The Verge ● Jan. 6, 2018
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
I remember when the New Yorker magazine, run out of things to say about the show, began to serialize James Joyce’s “Ulysses” in the space usually reserved for brief reviews of current shows.
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2010
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
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
If elected, Pratt reportedly plans to continue filming inside City Hall, transforming public office into an ongoing serialized production.
From Salon ● May 18, 2026
They also read serialized fiction in newspapers or magazines, as well as “story papers”—weekly magazines containing serial adventure stories and other fiction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 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
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
With the success of “Dracula Daily,” other Substacks and newsletters have begun serializing classic literature, said Kirkland.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2022
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
Still, not long before he died at age 61 in 1971, he managed one last major coup by serializing an epic novel about a desert planet called Arrakis, Frank Herbert’s “Dune.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2018
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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