episodes

noun

plural of episode
as in events
something that happens I'm trying to forget the whole embarrassing episode

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Recent Examples of episodes Saturday Night Live has revealed the musical guests for its first November episodes. — Walden Green, Pitchfork, 22 Oct. 2026 Regal is bringing all six season 1 episodes of the hit Crave/HBO Max hockey romance to select movie theaters for a limited run in November. — ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026 New episodes will premiere every other Saturday and run for roughly 15 minutes. — Selome Hailu, Variety, 22 Oct. 2026 This will likely mean that the average budget of future Harry Potter episodes will drop. — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2026 Three of those six episodes have been made available for review. — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026 Plus 8’s Monday night episodes regularly reached millions of viewers. — Isabella Albaig, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2026 After its debut, episodes will release weekly until the two-episode finale on Friday, November 27, 2026. — Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 21 Oct. 2026 Luckily, Brooks said yes, and appeared in several episodes of the season himself. — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for episodes
  1. events
  2. things
  3. incidents
  4. circumstances
  5. occurrences
Noun
  • The district would install gates on its drives that could be opened or closed as needed during events and school hours.
    — Randy Moll, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
  • The local police department is conducting a criminal investigation into the events leading up to the collision and the actions of those involved, Kinnan said Wednesday.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of events
Noun
  • Born in 1888, Jim Casey spent his life, starting at the tender age of eleven, thinking about how to deliver things more efficiently.
    — Marc Levinson, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2026
  • New York — Brett Smiley was elected mayor of Providence in 2022 on a pledge to build more housing and get things done in Rhode Island’s capital city.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of things
Noun
  • In the immediate aftermath of high-profile incidents, such as the Sandy Hook school shooting, in Newtown, Connecticut, the team would make contact with law enforcement to offer assistance.
    — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Beatrice is not the only person reconsidering the nastiness of the proceedings; a series of small incidents leads Morgan to question Cathcarts’ cruelty.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of incidents
Noun
  • These circumstances, too, create a perception of the world as unpredictable and may lead people to seek escape via alcohol or other drugs.
    — Maia Szalavitz, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
  • In a Facebook post, police explained that officers can consider the circumstances when deciding whether warnings, citations or other enforcement are appropriate within the law and department policy.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of circumstances
Noun
  • Sign up for our weekly newsletter Proof Positive How does a coherent structure emerge from many small random occurrences?
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2026
  • There’s a fragmented culture where all corners of the entertainment world are struggling to produce new versions of the sort of ubiquitous, four-quadrant successes that consumers recall as regular occurrences in earlier decades.
    — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of occurrences

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“Episodes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/episodes. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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