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hardback

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as in hardcover

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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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The hardcover book had blank pages allocated for different parts of the story, an intended title and concept.

— Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 24 July 2026
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

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The paperback edition of his translation of Homer’s Odyssey was released in April by the University of Chicago Press.

— Daniel Mendelsohn, The New York Review of Books, 15 July 2026
During intermission, people thumbed through the small paperback with its stars-and-stripes cover, afterwards, slipping it into their purses and pockets.

— Chloe Veltman, NPR, 10 July 2026

Definition of paperback

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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
The softcover reading guide highlights ten of the most vital works to the Mythos.

— Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025

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