weeklies

plural of 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. — 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
  • 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
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
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
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
Noun
  • The inspiration for the series began with the fact that the Museum’s holdings included an actual VistaVision projector built in the early 1990s for dailies screenings but which hadn’t been used for decades.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026
  • In-demand Los Angeles projectionist Taylor Umphenour, an Imax consultant who has worked with Nolan on his dailies, helped oversee the design and construction.
    — Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2026
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

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