hardback

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for hardback
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Noun
  • Also included is a 120-page hardcover book containing photographs by Cognito documenting the creation and promotion of the original album, along with lyric excerpts and handwritten notes from bey himself.
    SPIN Staff, SPIN, 22 June 2026
  • The Games Resemble Collector’s Books Similar to Hasbro's recent Monopoly Fourth Wing release, both editions of the game are packaged like hardcover novels with designs that mimic the book jackets of A Court of Thorns and Roses and A Court of Mist and Fury.
    Kirsten Acuna, PEOPLE, 15 June 2026
Noun
  • Whitehead fought Clarke for the paperback novelizations of their favorites, and began his study of narrative in the pages of Fangoria.
    Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • Pair the apps with a paperback field guide, which offers a broader picture than apps that tend to funnel you toward just one or two likely matches.
    Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 18 June 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • The softcover reading guide highlights ten of the most vital works to the Mythos.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The Experiment, paperbound, 2014).
    Jessica Wapner, Scientific American, 16 Nov. 2020
  • 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 26 Jun. 2026.

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