Series Events Incident Sparked Foreseen Latest Articles Test

• the incident sparked off a whole series of events that nobody had foreseen.
• the latest in a series of articles on the nature of modern society
• the movie consisted of a series of flashbacks.
• the first episode of the new series is on saturday.

series

1. several events or things of a similar kind that happen one after the other
• The incident sparked off a whole series of events that nobody had foreseen.
• the latest in a series of articles on the nature of modern society
• The movie consisted of a series of flashbacks.
2. a set of radio or television programmes that deal with the same subject or that have the same characters
• The first episode of the new series is on Saturday.
3. a set of sports games played between the same two teams
• the World Series (= in baseball)
• England have lost the Test series (= of cricket matches) against India.
4. an electrical circuit in which the current passes through all the parts in the correct order
• batteries connected in series
• a series circuit

Extra Examples

• Australia won the Test series against England.
• HBO has begun releasing the series on DVD.
• He had a whole series of tests.
• He is in hospital for a whole series of tests.
• In the first of a special two-part series on the economy…
• India must win to level the series.
• She has a small part in a drama series for radio.
• The BBC has already commissioned a second series.
• The Bronx Bombers won two of three in a weekend series with the Red Sox.
• The quartet will be performing in a series of lunchtime concerts.
• They took the first two games in the series.
• We watched the final part of a series on Australian wildlife.
• a complex series of events
• a series of events/interviews/meetings/lectures
• a series of experiments/studies/tests
• a time series showing the pattern of global warming
• an anime series based on novels by Hiroyuki Morioka
• the Harry Potter book series
• the final book in the series
• the hit comedy series ‘Friends’
• He had committed a series of minor criminal offences.
• He’s already looking forward to this summer’s Ashes series against Australia.
• She wrote a whole series of novels between 1985 and 2005.
• So far England are 2–0 up in the Test series against India.
• In 2004 the Boston Red Sox won baseball’s World Series for the first time in 86 years.
• The incident sparked off a series of events that no one had foreseen.
• The shooting was the latest in a series of violent attacks in the city.
• This is the first in a series of articles about rock ’n’ roll legends.
• You will need to have a series of vaccinations before you visit the area.

Word Origin

• early 17th cent.: from Latin, literally ‘row, chain’, from serere ‘join, connect’.