verb
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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
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
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
It also helped show that an animated kids series can tackle weighty themes such as war, genocide, imperialism, sexism, propaganda and political corruption in a serialized story and be a hit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 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
This month, Scott announced that she would be publishing an 80,000-word serialized novel for free on Substack.
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
The poor suffered in the squalor that Charles Dickens was capturing so well in his serialized novels.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" 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
Additionally, Polymer80 is prohibited from selling gun kits in the state without serializing parts and performing background checks.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2023
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
Clubbed Thumb, the company whose discoveries include “What the Constitution Means to Me” and “Tumacho,” is serializing Rinne Groff’s play, about the battle for the Equal Rights Amendment, over three episodes released weekly.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2021
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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