serialize
verb
se·ri·al·ize
ˈsir-ē-ə-ˌlīz 
serialized; serializing
: to arrange or publish in serial form
serialize a novel
Examples of serialize in a Sentence
Her story was serialized in the magazine.
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Mary Shelley’s Frankenhole is lightly serialized, but following the ongoing story is not really the point; in a meta effort to convey how time is meaningless to the immortal, Stamatopoulos requested that the first season be aired in a random order.
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And Capote’s In Cold Blood was first serialized in The New Yorker in 1965.
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 9 Apr. 2026
Did this aspect of the novel having been serialized at first prove challenging?
—Literary Hub, 23 Mar. 2026
Mary Shelley’s Frankenhole is lightly serialized, but following the ongoing story is not really the point; in a meta effort to convey how time is meaningless to the immortal, Stamatopoulos requested that the first season be aired in a random order.
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
And Capote’s In Cold Blood was first serialized in The New Yorker in 1965.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Mar. 2026
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serialize
verb
se·ri·al·ize
ˈsir-ē-ə-ˌlīz
serialized; serializing
: to arrange or publish in serial form
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