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mags

noun

plural of mag

as in magazines

a publication that appears at regular intervals flip through this month's fashion mags to find out what's in style

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Recent Examples of mags The actual journalism these mags do now stands out in a crowded landscape of liars and unsourced sources. — Lindsey Weber, Vanity Fair, 28 Sep. 2026 While the film’s logline hints at something a bit darker — a young woman makes her way through the rarefied world of New York literary mags in the years before #MeToo is even a glimmer — there’s a real lightness to the final film. — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2026 His wife, Lizzie Fulton, arrived at the same time as an artist friend named Max Glaser, who’d brought a box full of old nudie mags. — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026 There was a time when plastic surgery was something that was only talked about behind closed doors — or speculated about in the pages of gossip mags. — Louis Peitzman, Entertainment Weekly, 24 June 2026 The show follows the usual rhythms of a romance novel and the erotic stories that used to populate gay skin mags. — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025

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Which is to say the agents are hustling — and even trying to submit to literary magazines — to stay alive.

— Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2026
If you get parched while walking the trails, pop into a resting station with bathrooms, coffee, water, snacks, books, and magazines.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of magazines

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

Definition of periodicals

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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

Definition of journals

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Also on the lobby level, a corner shop sells downloadable newspapers and magazines, snacks, and classic Penguin paperbacks.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Earlier bans were usually covered by local newspapers and then eventually forgotten.

— Naveen Basavaraj, The Conversation, 5 Oct. 2026

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