episodes

noun

plural of episode
as in events
something that happens I'm trying to forget the whole embarrassing episode

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Recent Examples of episodes Saturday Night Live has revealed the musical guests for its first November episodes. — Walden Green, Pitchfork, 22 Oct. 2026 Regal is bringing all six season 1 episodes of the hit Crave/HBO Max hockey romance to select movie theaters for a limited run in November. — ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026 New episodes will premiere every other Saturday and run for roughly 15 minutes. — Selome Hailu, Variety, 22 Oct. 2026 This will likely mean that the average budget of future Harry Potter episodes will drop. — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2026 Three of those six episodes have been made available for review. — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026 Plus 8’s Monday night episodes regularly reached millions of viewers. — Isabella Albaig, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2026 After its debut, episodes will release weekly until the two-episode finale on Friday, November 27, 2026. — Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 21 Oct. 2026 Luckily, Brooks said yes, and appeared in several episodes of the season himself. — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for episodes
  1. events
  2. things
  3. incidents
  4. circumstances
  5. occurrences
Noun
  • Hundreds also turned out for a No Kings protest in Boise Saturday, one of 3,000 such events nationwide aimed at mobilizing early voters.
    — Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Part of its purpose, from the beginning, was not only to deliver new facts but to interpret ragged events for a nervous audience of relatively prosperous, largely white viewers who shared Wallace’s concern about the shape and tenor of the future.
    — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of events
Noun
  • Which brings us back to the list of things that lasted longer than Zacharia’s term as White House Press Secretary.
    — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 18 Oct. 2026
  • The wide-leg pants keep things relaxed, and the ruched waist on the knit top adds shape and makes the whole look feel more polished than a standard sweatshirt set.
    — Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of things
Noun
  • In the immediate aftermath of high-profile incidents, such as the Sandy Hook school shooting, in Newtown, Connecticut, the team would make contact with law enforcement to offer assistance.
    — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Beatrice is not the only person reconsidering the nastiness of the proceedings; a series of small incidents leads Morgan to question Cathcarts’ cruelty.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of incidents
Noun
  • These circumstances, too, create a perception of the world as unpredictable and may lead people to seek escape via alcohol or other drugs.
    — Maia Szalavitz, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
  • In a Facebook post, police explained that officers can consider the circumstances when deciding whether warnings, citations or other enforcement are appropriate within the law and department policy.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of circumstances
Noun
  • Sign up for our weekly newsletter Proof Positive How does a coherent structure emerge from many small random occurrences?
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2026
  • There’s a fragmented culture where all corners of the entertainment world are struggling to produce new versions of the sort of ubiquitous, four-quadrant successes that consumers recall as regular occurrences in earlier decades.
    — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of occurrences

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