Ongoing and Serial

Ongoing

Ongoing adjective - Being in progress or development.

Serial and ongoing are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Serial" with "Ongoing", this adjectives are similar.

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".

Both words in one sentence

  • Music / The Agonist 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.
  • 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
  • Comic Strip / The Phantom 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.
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