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An example use of series in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… want to do a whole series on lawn tools …”
Series is a group of things that are connected or happen one after the other.
the word series occurs in english on average 204.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that series can be often used in the following areas:
1) business and work;
2) communication, information, and media;
3) education, science, and technology;