hardback

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Recent Examples of hardback The collection includes tabletop pieces and porcelains, as well as new items such as the Impero teapot and Espresso set, the Serving bowl and platter and the hardback Disk placemats. Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 9 Apr. 2025 The publishing industry reported a revenue increase of 7% for hardback books last year compared to 2023, and more than 4% for paperbacks, along with an approximately 3% increase for e-books. Dean Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2025 Ideal as a Christmas or birthday gift or just as a way to inspire young minds, this large-format, full-colour hardback is a must-have for every child's bookshelf. The Week Junior, theweek, 3 Oct. 2024 The videos show them slowly but fluently reading a hardback book, filling in a crossword puzzle, and playing cards. IEEE Spectrum, 21 May 2024 See All Example Sentences for hardback
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Noun
  • The series, which has a robust social media following, has sold more than three million copies between paperback and audiobooks.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 19 June 2025
  • My job was to stock the new paperbacks that came in every week, make deliveries to downtown offices, and take the mail across the street to the little post office inside the Federal Building.
    Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 June 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 1 Jul. 2025.

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