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How to use the word serial in a Sentence?

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The headline reads, Docs say patients make them prescribe useless antibiotics. This puts a physician in roughly the same predicament as a serial killer. The latter says, Stop me before I kill again, while the former says, Stop me before I prescribe again.

Nicolas Martin, www.iatrogenic.org

added by upthetotempole
1 year ago

I watched a colleague of mine try a shooting case where someone got shot, so he’s able to try those very serious violent crimes and then switch, maybe someone who was a serial shoplifter and then charged with grand larceny and is in mental health treatment court because they had mental health issues, he was able to handle the wide range of cases and do them all fairly.

Brendan Tracy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Special ‘Prosecutor’ assigned to the ‘get Trump case,’ Jack Smith(?), is a Trump Hating THUG whose wife is a serial and open Trump Hater, whose friends & other family members are even worse.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He was a serial murderer, and each mention of his name is a trigger to the families he devastated, reopening wounds that we can only hope had finally started to heal, in the truest of ironies, Bulger's family has experienced the excruciating pain and trauma their relative inflicted on far too many, and the justice system is now coming to their aid.

Rachael Rollins

Found on CNN
1 year ago

George Gascon dictated a blanket policy on December 7, 2020, whereby strike priors for forbidden to be filed on any case, george Gascon has also ordered all prosecutors to remove strike priors on any existing cases. That meant child murderers, serial rapists, child molesters, sex traffickers, and police killers who were career criminals.

Jon Hatami

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If nobody cared about him as a child growing up, then he didn’t have that empathy, why does he have no remorse or no guilt or no empathy for other human beings? I’ve seen this in a lot of serial killers, because they were abused.

John Kelly

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We were pretty surprised that Ted Bundy would write to the task force, he made it very clear what his purpose was in his letter. What he wanted to do, according to his description, was to get us into the mind of a serial killer. But we knew, just by the way the letter was written and the words he used, that he was just injecting himself into the situation, trying to find out as much as he could about the case.

Dave Reichert

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

You can not only celebrate parts of your history, you must deal with your entire history in order to root it out and change that culture, because the longer you ignore it, the more you perpetuate it and the more it empowers other predators, because they're watching the lack of discipline, or consequences for serial predators and rapists that then gives others the green light to make those decisions and prey on young men and young women.

Jon Vaughn

Found on CNN
2 years ago

My initial impression of Dennis Rader was that Dennis Rader wanted to challenge me, and what surprised me was the fact that there was n’t anything in Dennis Rader background that would correspond with the typical formula we have of serial killers. I recently heard a detective say that all serial killers have trauma in their background. He was wrong about that.

Katherine Ramsland

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When I first wrote to Dennis Rader, Dennis Rader appreciated the fact that I had academic credentials and that I was also an expert on serial killers because I had done a lot of writing on them prior to talking with him, but Dennis Rader had a test for me. Dennis Rader wanted me to solve some codes that Dennis Rader sent me.

Katherine Ramsland

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He's killed four already, and we suspect that he has more victims. He's a predator, as all serial killers are.

Fairfax Police Chief Kevin Davis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Old associates of the housepainter/alleged serial killer claim that, a few years prior to Poste’s 2018 death at 80, he had quietly given away his weapons, pistol parts, gunpowder, bullets and shell casings – more than a thousand, involving 25 different calibers – to his favorite locals, and most of these peculiar ‘gifts’ have remained in basements and closets, untouched, ever since.

The Case

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They're [state legislature] sort of guilty of serial over-criminalization. They continue to pass ad hoc bills that could criminalize behavior that could already be charged under the current statute, yes it's responding to a tragedy … a tragedy does not mean that there are no tools available to hold people accountable in those cases.

Elizabeth Randol

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I can see the validity of both theories, but when you're engaged in an investigation, especially a serial killer investigation, you have to keep an open mind. To lock in one theory would be, I think, misguided.

Stuart Cameron

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In contrast to other home tests which require testing twice within a two-to-three-day period (a process known as serial screening), the Flowflex COVID-19 Antigen Home Test has been authorized for use as a single test by individuals with or without symptoms. This will allow for the distribution of more affordable single-test packaging, resulting in greater access to home testing.

San Diego-based ACON Laboratories Inc.

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Rather than quarantine that whole classroom, you just test them in a serial fashion to make sure that you didn't have an exposure that led to a downstream case and so you can actually use testing to prevent quarantines.

Scott Gottlieb

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What we know is that the most effective way the sites can reduce the spread of harmful misinformation is to identify the serial spreaders... and throw them off their platform.

Marc Ambinder

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I don't necessarily envy the decisions... that the platforms have to make, but it does seem pretty clear that the volume and the vigilance of misinformation reduces itself in proportion to the number of serial misinformation spreaders who are deplatformed.

Marc Ambinder

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The classical romantic comedy plot is very end-point driven, with a serial, you can get into the idea of a relationship as a process.

John Alberti

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There is nothing to connect the two cases and no reason to believe a serial killer is operating in the area.

Gwinnett County

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I am deeply distressed about the injustice of the whole thing, he's a sociopath. He's a serial rapist.

Victoria Valentino

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I look forward to the day that, hopefully, he'll sit down and just go right down the line and confess to every one of them that he did, he's probably the most prolific African American serial killer in U.S. history, I would say.

Police Carl Frost

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s not like he touched someone one time. He’s a serial rapist. he told me if I didn’t say anything, he would come back and put flowers on the grave.

Spencer Walker

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I don’t care what a serial sexual harasser and assaulter and someone who covered up the deaths of thousands of people at nursing homes has to say about anything.

Bill Neidhardt

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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