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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 One young fashion photographer who made a name for himself at indie mags like i-D with his unpolished images of a teenage Kate Moss, was Juergen Teller. — Sheena McKenzie, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2026 Instagram and indie fashion mags blew up, and Cassel started doing profiles. — Grace Byron, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2026 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

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Noun

What Allen Lane had in mind, though, was a departure from earlier paperback ventures that had been aimed largely at the readers of story magazines and dime novels.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2026
From the earliest days of his film career, fan magazines and movie columnists fixed on the unconventionality of Astaire's image.

— David Hajdu, Vanity Fair, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of magazines

Noun

Gates, who now stewards the photographic archives and periodicals of the Johnson Publishing Company, has exhibited it in different forms.

— Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2026
When word spread that the Chief Librarian of the Army was paying a visit, soldiers rushed to request their favorite periodicals and book genres.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of periodicals

Noun

My sister, the author Jacqueline Moriarty, works in a particularly beautiful chocolate shop, which is also a café and looks really magical, and her books often do have a magical side to them.

— Olivia Squire, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2026
As a teenager, Sharma worked at a golf course and sold coupon books to earn money.

— Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of books

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Two of the world’s leading medical journals published key studies this week that shed even more light on how ADHD impacts adults.

— Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 23 Oct. 2026
The library used to house thousands of books, journals, and reports that employees could use to learn, research, and explore ideas — much like The Garage.

— Tom Warren, The Verge, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of journals

Noun

Kansas City Call Building The Kansas City Call, founded in 1919, became one of the city’s most influential newspapers for the Black community while reporting on community affairs and advocating for civil rights.

— Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2026
As the kid grew up in Los Angeles, shining shoes, selling newspapers, and vowing, unlike the rest of his family, to get an education, one impulse drove him on.

— Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026

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