as in magazines
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 mags
The show follows the usual rhythms of a romance novel and the erotic stories that used to populate gay skin mags.
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Brian Moylan, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025
Brian Moylan, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mags
Noun
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Advances in storage density, and the digitization of everything from filing taxes to laying out magazines, changed this calculus.—
Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude.—
Chas Newkey-Burden,
TheWeek,
20 Apr. 2026
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Additionally, the agency is seeking price changes for first-class mail products, periodicals, marketing mail and package services.—
David Chiu,
PEOPLE,
10 Apr. 2026
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Many colonial American newspaper editors, such as James Franklin and Benjamin Franklin, were deeply influenced by the essays Addison and Steele published in their periodicals, the Tatler and the Spectator.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
6 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Might seem like an outlier in the current array of articles and books about open marriages and polyamory, and at first glance the line of distinction between the two worlds, much like the division between blue and white tickets, seems almost old-fashioned.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Apr. 2026
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But friends and colleagues remembered him as someone who had a deep love not only for journalism, but for sports, history, travel, books and, of course, his family.—
Michael Collins,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2026
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Biddle studied the journals from the captains and their men, which ran to more than a million words.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Apr. 2026
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His two modest trunks containing projectors, reels, journals and documents were handed down across family generations until McFarland finally brought them to the Library of Congress.—
Ryan Brennan,
Kansas City Star,
20 Apr. 2026
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Americans no longer turn to TV and newspapers as their primary source of news, instead turning to online opinion personalities and comedians, particularly those on the right, gaining steam among people who voted in the last presidential election.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Apr. 2026
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Other losses were in construction, down by 200, and information (telecommunications, newspapers, publishing industry) down by 100.—
Phillip Molnar,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Apr. 2026
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“Mags.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mags. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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