mags

noun

plural of mag
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 actual journalism these mags do now stands out in a crowded landscape of liars and unsourced sources. — Lindsey Weber, Vanity Fair, 28 Sep. 2026 While the film’s logline hints at something a bit darker — a young woman makes her way through the rarefied world of New York literary mags in the years before #MeToo is even a glimmer — there’s a real lightness to the final film. — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2026 His wife, Lizzie Fulton, arrived at the same time as an artist friend named Max Glaser, who’d brought a box full of old nudie mags. — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026 There was a time when plastic surgery was something that was only talked about behind closed doors — or speculated about in the pages of gossip mags. — Louis Peitzman, Entertainment Weekly, 24 June 2026 The show follows the usual rhythms of a romance novel and the erotic stories that used to populate gay skin mags. — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mags
  1. magazines
  2. periodicals
  3. books
  4. journals
  5. newspapers
Noun
  • Police arrested Washington minutes after the shooting and recovered the gun and two magazines from the neighbor's apartment, according to prosecutors.
    — Darius Johnson, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026
  • He has also been featured in fashion magazines, including commON magazine in August 2022 and has attended major fashion events, like Paris Fashion Week in January 2022.
    — Giovana Gelhoren, InStyle, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of magazines
Noun
  • Operating for nearly a century, Algani began in 1927 as a modest seller of newspapers, periodicals, and postcards before evolving into one of the city’s first international newsstands.
    — Eleonora Giordani, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2026
  • People who might be lucky to have a roof over their heads gathered there to read American books and periodicals, watch American movies, listen to lectures about America, tap their toes to jazz from America.
    — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of periodicals
Noun
  • The bookshelf in our king-bedroom suite featured a variety of titles - from coffee table books chronicling early twentieth-century Miami to art history books to beachy novels.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Highlights Press, the book publishing program of Highlights for Children, is now a top-20 children’s publisher and routinely publishes activity books, craft books and learning workbooks.
    — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of books
Noun
  • But available information from state health departments and medical journals suggests the Florida outbreak marks the most cases in a calendar year for any state since at least the 1940s.
    — Mike Stobbe, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Shimoda reveals how identities are forged through steamships crisscrossing the Pacific, formed by old family journals and photographs, and also obscured by systemic erasure.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of journals
Noun
  • Among Murdoch’s undertakings were that the newspapers’ editors would maintain control of their political policies and that the editors would have full independence from Murdoch’s orders about the mix of news and opinion in their pages.
    — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026
  • The newspapers reported McKinsey alleged Chen directed anti-LGBTQ slurs at him and one of the couple's children.
    — Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of newspapers

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“Mags.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mags. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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