as in cartoons
a series of drawings that tell a story or part of a story
a comic strip that is beloved by both children and adults
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Recent Examples of comic strips
He was featured in tiny comic strips wrapped around pieces of Bazooka bubble gum.
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R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The postwar best-seller Tezuka borrowed heavily from American newspaper comic strips and Walt Disney; Hayao Miyazaki has long praised France’s Mœbius.
—Matt Alt, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The postwar best-seller Tezuka borrowed heavily from American newspaper comic strips and Walt Disney; Hayao Miyazaki has long praised France’s Mœbius.
—Matt Alt, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for comic strips
Noun
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Last year the park swung open the doors to equally ingenious fairytale rides themed to the Frozen, Tangled and Peter Pan cartoons.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Sixty-five percent of respondents in low-income countries were exposed to them, too, including at school, on social media, at sporting events and in cartoons.—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Winocour does better with some of the specifics, like the red adhesive biopsy strips placed around Maxine’s breasts, mirroring the patterning tape on mannequins in the workshop.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Sep. 2025
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The adhesive strips on these nursing pads help keep them in place, even throughout the night.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Comic strips.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comic%20strips. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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