Ongoing
Ongoing adjective - Being in progress or development.
Serial
Serial adjective - Appearing in parts or numbers that follow regularly.
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Synonyms for Serial
Ongoing and serial are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ongoing" instead an adjective "Serial".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- steady and ongoing
- steady and serial
- regular and ongoing
- regular and serial
- uninterrupted and ongoing
- uninterrupted and serial
- continuous and ongoing
- continuous and serial
- continual and ongoing
- continual and serial
- continuing and ongoing
- continuing and serial
- continued and ongoing
- continued and serial
Both words in one sentence
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Serial Escalation - An ongoing competition between Alissa's (and now Vicky's) whiplash vocals, the three guitarists' Epic Riffs and Simon's ludicrously fast drumming.
Source: Music / The Agonist - The final strip inexplicably did not resolve the ongoing plotline, but instead ended on Annie being held in South America by a serial murderer and Daddy Warbucks staring hopelessly into the distance believing his beloved daughter to be murdered by gangsters.
Source: Cut Short -
Particular mention goes to the Heart of Darkness ongoing storyline, in which the Phantom's enemies included neo-Nazis and a horrific, apparently immortal serial killer.
Source: Comic Strip / The Phantom
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