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
"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
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
In Nescafé’s serialized Gold Blend romance, which aired in the U.S. as the Taster’s Choice saga, he brewed up the romantic hero almost too well.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
“The story continues as a short story, and maybe those shorts turn into novels, maybe those shorts turn into a serialized vertical series,” said Drucker Mann.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
The way “asses.masses” shifted tones and tenor recalled a game such as “Kentucky Route Zero,” another serialized and alternately realistic and fanciful game with political overtones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026
Spiritual periodicals contained serialized fiction, book reviews, ads for upcoming lectures, wedding and birth announcements, all items common to hometown papers.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
Kirkland plans to continue into 2023, starting on May 3 and running until Nov. 6, the date of the last letter, and is also thinking of serializing other classic novels.
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
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
I passed the time making up stories and serializing them.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2017
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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