I. noun
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a drama series/serial (= a number of programmes with the same characters )
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It is one of the longest-running drama series on Japanese television.
serial monogamy
serial number
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Each computer has a serial number on it.
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Don't miss the latest episode in our serial , "David Copperfield."
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I love the old Saturday morning serials from the 1940s.
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The BBC sells most of its successful serials to the US.
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And when the hospital serial finished they carried their coffee across to the set and watched the courtroom serial.
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I had recorded my favourite radio serial one evening, along with twenty minutes of a programme which happened to follow it.
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In the tradition of the old Saturday-afternoon movie serials, our melodramatic debate over the serial comma continues.
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The television serial should return it there.
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Their letters of planning went back and forth like installments of a serial .
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What was between them was, I vaguely recall, a children's classic drama serial , i.e. Charles Dickens dramatisations etc.
II. adjective
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■ NOUN
killer
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Read the February issue of eve to find out, and discuss whether serial killers are born that way below.
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This morning I made you out to be a serial killer !
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I discovered that it is true that a serial killer operated in the area.
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She escapes and later discovers that her attacker is a suspected serial killer .
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They could be serial killers , joyriders, arsonists or hitmen.
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She enlists the help of psychiatrist / author Sigourney Weaver, an expert on serial killers .
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Recycling is the first step toward becoming a serial killer .
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Nick Moloney can relate: to jumpers, to serial killers , hostage-takers, you name it.
monogamy
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As we have seen serial monogamy could put the claims of unquestionably legitimate princes at risk.
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Such would tend to be the case where people practice serial monogamy .
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Nevertheless the serial monogamy of kings is likely to have had its implications for the rivalries between their heirs.
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Serial multipartnerism, which can also be called serial monogamy , means having partners one at a time.
murder
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They're the devil, these serial murders .
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What about fingerprints, copycat crimes and serial murders ?
murderer
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One was about a Machine hit man who emerges from early retirement when his wife is slain by a serial murderer .
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But I never thought he was a serial murderer .
number
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Training returns, ammo expenditure, equipment serial number , vehicle mileage - all have to be documented.
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In addition, an AR-IS semiautomatic rifle with an obliterated serial number was found abandoned on the riverbank.
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The number before each name is the serial number of each claim, and amounts are those due to each creditor.
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They arrested me for having a gun with an altered serial number on it.
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Each player attempts to fool the others about the serial numbers printed on the face of his dollar bill.
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Then, and only then, do the players reveal their serial numbers and determine who is bluffing whom.
rapist
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Find this man:New moves to catch a serial rapist .
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The last verified rape by the serial rapist occurred last Tuesday in Mountain View.
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Why does most of the coverage focus on the very few disturbed serial rapists , rather than typical rape?
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Read in studio Police have more than trebled the reward on offer for the capture of a serial rapist .
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There's no doubt police are worried by this serial rapist .
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Nearly all present-day digital computers are of the serial type, executing one program at a time.
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Even serial killers get cost-of-living raises if they happen to have a pension adjusted for inflation.
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Read the February issue of eve to find out, and discuss whether serial killers are born that way below.
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She escapes and later discovers that her attacker is a suspected serial killer.
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Some computer printers - so called, serial printers - receive their information from the host computer sequentially.
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The last verified rape by the serial rapist occurred last Tuesday in Mountain View.
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There are a lot of courtroom drama books and serial killer tales about, but this one is special.
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This morning I made you out to be a serial killer!