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Recent Examples of hardback
According to Amazon, where the new dictionary is being presold, a hardback edition costs $32.30, plus shipping and handling costs.
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Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 25 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
Ace Books began publishing the books in August 2024, and now there are already more than a million hardbacks in print.
—Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 19 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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Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 25 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
Ace Books began publishing the books in August 2024, and now there are already more than a million hardbacks in print.
—Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 19 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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Each of them holds a navy-blue hardcover book open to the same page.—
Rob Schmitz,
NPR,
24 Mar. 2026
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Paperbacks and children’s books will be 25 cents or 5 for $1, with adult hardcover and trade paperbacks 50 cents.—
Pomerado News,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Mar. 2026
Noun
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And yet, my favorite table at a bookstore will always be the new paperback table.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Mar. 2026
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Though little more than a précis of the actual book, this oversized paperback, printed on the pulpiest of papers, marked a watershed in my young life.—
Michael Dirda,
The New York Review of Books,
19 Mar. 2026
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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 1 Apr. 2026.
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