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an publication that is issued once every week
enjoyed the fishing reports in the outdoor club's weekly
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Recent Examples of weeklies
Some of these digital pamphlets provide terse, functional updates while others act as the successors to bygone alt-weeklies, covering cultural happenings and carrying out local-interest investigations.
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Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
The Southern California News Group is made up of 11 daily news publications and several weeklies throughout Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
—Michele Cardon, Daily News, 13 Apr. 2026
While major alt-weeklies such as the Village Voice (which became part of Westword’s parent company during some consolidation in the industry) and smaller papers have closed in recent years, Westword has found a way to hang on in both print and online.
—John Wenzel, Denver Post, 25 Mar. 2026
The original ownership group sold the Reader in 2007 to Creative Loafing, a small chain of alternative weeklies based in Atlanta.
—Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
Susan Orlean’s memoir promises insight not only into her start at alt-weeklies, her journalism, and her brilliant narrative nonfiction works, but also provides a blueprint for how to live a creative life.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 July 2025
Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
The Southern California News Group is made up of 11 daily news publications and several weeklies throughout Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
—Michele Cardon, Daily News, 13 Apr. 2026
While major alt-weeklies such as the Village Voice (which became part of Westword’s parent company during some consolidation in the industry) and smaller papers have closed in recent years, Westword has found a way to hang on in both print and online.
—John Wenzel, Denver Post, 25 Mar. 2026
The original ownership group sold the Reader in 2007 to Creative Loafing, a small chain of alternative weeklies based in Atlanta.
—Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
Susan Orlean’s memoir promises insight not only into her start at alt-weeklies, her journalism, and her brilliant narrative nonfiction works, but also provides a blueprint for how to live a creative life.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 July 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for weeklies
Noun
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The following morning, the stack of newspapers was waiting at the end of the driveway.—
Peter Hessler,
New Yorker,
31 May 2026
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Confusion in Uruguay, and the future In late 2025, newspapers in Uruguay reported that the Adam Smith Center planned to open a facility in that country, a claim allegedly confirmed by the Uruguay government.—
Daniel Rivero,
Miami Herald,
30 May 2026
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Erasures from his the poet’s journals narrate the speaker’s visit to his father in prison through the pinhole of what’s left of memory.—
Craig Morgan Teicher,
Literary Hub,
1 June 2026
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Lloyd’s List is one of the oldest shipping industry trade journals in the world.—
Spencer Kimball,
CNBC,
30 May 2026
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For more than ten years, she was based in Paris and Barcelona contributing to Vogue Italia, and other sector magazines and authoring several books about fashion and food.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 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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Heuermann is an avid ready of books and periodicals, Toulon told ABC News.—
Aaron Katersky,
ABC News,
4 June 2026
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Visitors can enter through the fly, then sit in the library among books selected by Gone examining tourism, colonization, sugar production and the history of the Caribbean and Latin America.—
Michelle F. Solomon,
Miami Herald,
4 June 2026
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That sort of flamboyant overstatement became central to Turner’s personal brand—and made for irresistible copy in the dailies.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
6 May 2026
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Reports in national dailies La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera did not indicate whether Rubio, a Catholic, would meet personally with Leo.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
4 May 2026
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History Magazine journalism developed during the 18th century alongside pamphlets and early periodicals in Britain and the American colonies.—
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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“Weeklies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weeklies. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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