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Recent Examples of hardback
News of the deal comes following the release of McCloskey’s fourth novel, The Persian, which debuted at #3 on the Sunday Times’ fiction hardback bestseller list this past weekend.
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Matt Grobar, Deadline, 12 Feb. 2026
Head over to the Natural Landscape Photography Awards site to see all the winners and runners-up, and pre-order a hardback book with the top entries at $70.
—Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 28 Sep. 2025
The set, remixed and expanded across multiple formats, will include a 5LP vinyl box set as well as a 4-CD box set, with both including a Blu-ray disc, replica tour poster and 100-page hardback book with a new essay by Stones expert Paul Sexton and exclusive photos from the album session and tour.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2025
The revision, which would be not a hardback book but an online-only edition, requiring a subscription, was expected to take decades.
—Stefan Fatsis, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2025
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Matt Grobar, Deadline, 12 Feb. 2026
Head over to the Natural Landscape Photography Awards site to see all the winners and runners-up, and pre-order a hardback book with the top entries at $70.
—Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 28 Sep. 2025
The set, remixed and expanded across multiple formats, will include a 5LP vinyl box set as well as a 4-CD box set, with both including a Blu-ray disc, replica tour poster and 100-page hardback book with a new essay by Stones expert Paul Sexton and exclusive photos from the album session and tour.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2025
The revision, which would be not a hardback book but an online-only edition, requiring a subscription, was expected to take decades.
—Stefan Fatsis, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hardback
Noun
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The photo-rich hardcover follows a 1,200-mile odyssey into the heart of the world’s driest non-polar desert, the Atacama Desert in Chile.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 May 2026
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The Night Action was printed in hardcover in the US 1966, and then again as a paperback a year later, but has since fallen out of print, and out of memory.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The author's young adult paranormal romance trilogy will be re-released in a new paperback box set this fall.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
13 May 2026
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Being able to pass the time reading without dealing with bulky paperbacks is a major improvement.—
Chaise Sanders,
Travel + Leisure,
12 May 2026
Noun
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After the lawsuit was filed, the jail changed its mail policy, and softcover books as well as periodicals published by the nonprofit were accepted into the jail.—
Vanessa Swales,
jsonline.com,
12 Dec. 2025
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The softcover reading guide highlights ten of the most vital works to the Mythos.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The Experiment, paperbound, 2014).—
Jessica Wapner,
Scientific American,
16 Nov. 2020
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As the first nodes of the internet were being wired together, the Catalog became a paperbound search engine.—
Fred Turner,
Harper's magazine,
10 Jan. 2019
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“Hardback.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hardback. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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