as in newspaper
a publication that appears at regular intervals
flip through this month's fashion mags to find out what's in style
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Recent Examples of mag
The university also suspended Alice, a fashion and wellness student-run mag that primarily features women.
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Tevon Blair, Essence, 10 Dec. 2025
After refusing, the employees dragged the mag out of the aircraft.
—Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
Not a shabby blast for a fashion mag right out of the starting gate, but then again, 72 isn’t just any mag.
—Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
The rash of lad mags, crowded with bikini babes and bad advice for dudes, actively influenced the lads to be more sexist; studies showed that exposure to fashion magazines in the 1990s seemed to make girls hate themselves.
—Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2025
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Tevon Blair, Essence, 10 Dec. 2025
After refusing, the employees dragged the mag out of the aircraft.
—Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
Not a shabby blast for a fashion mag right out of the starting gate, but then again, 72 isn’t just any mag.
—Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
The rash of lad mags, crowded with bikini babes and bad advice for dudes, actively influenced the lads to be more sexist; studies showed that exposure to fashion magazines in the 1990s seemed to make girls hate themselves.
—Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mag
Noun
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In 2021, Google funded a lawsuit filed by a town in Oregon fighting a local newspaper to avoid disclosing how much water the tech giant would use for an expansion of its existing data center.—
Ashley Belanger,
ArsTechnica,
4 June 2026
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At the time of the custody battle, Bronstein had enjoyed top editor positions at the San Francisco Examiner, the Chronicle and Hearst Newspapers after the two newspapers merged in 2000.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
4 June 2026
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The New York City 3rd Street portable has been used and documented in books and magazines for over half a century.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 June 2026
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Turning long-form magazine articles into an audio format utilizes its existing company assets and expertise and offers an expanding menu of services for its premium subscribers, with the expectation that more consumers will become paying customers as the value proposition grows.—
Frank Racioppi,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
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However, these publications predated the widespread use of the term magazine for periodicals.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
21 May 2026
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The gala’s funds support acquisitions of garments and accessories, but also the institute’s reference library, which holds over 800 periodicals and 1,500 designer files pertaining to the history of fashion and clothing, dating back to the sixteenth century.—
Rachel Tashjian,
CNN Money,
1 May 2026
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Now, a study published Thursday in the journal Science suggests that bumblebees possess insight.—
Jacopo Prisco,
CNN Money,
4 June 2026
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More than two months after the Eaton and Palisades fires were extinguished, researchers from UCLA and UC Davis detected elevated levels of hexavalent chromium — a potent carcinogen — in the burn areas, the paper in the journal Nature Communications Earth & Environment says.—
Tony Briscoe,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2026
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His debut novel The Beast was a 2017 Spectator book of the year; his second novel, We Germans, was published in 2020 and translated into six languages.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2026
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Perhaps in imitation of the former occupant—known only through the photographs, books, textiles, and trinkets covering the walls and the floor—Liden sits topless at a piano.—
Erika Landström,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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“Mag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mag. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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