as in book
a set of printed sheets of paper bound together between covers and forming a work of fiction or nonfiction
picked up a thick tome on the Roman Empire at a used book store
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Recent Examples of tome
And all the recipes in this hefty tome are accessible to the home cook.
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Anastasia Tsioulcas, NPR, 15 Oct. 2025
Jones read tomes that featured accounts of pioneering women and of their attempts to survive and make it through.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025
The Swiss watchmaker continued to celebrate its 150th anniversary, releasing a 600-page tome titled The Watch—Stories and Savoir Faire, as well as the Royal Oak Jumbo Extra-Thin Selfwinding Flying Tourbillon Chronograph RD#5.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2025
Concurrent with the compound complexity of contemporary cars, most have become mind-numbing thick-as-a-brick tomes.
—Jim Gorzelany, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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Anastasia Tsioulcas, NPR, 15 Oct. 2025
Jones read tomes that featured accounts of pioneering women and of their attempts to survive and make it through.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025
The Swiss watchmaker continued to celebrate its 150th anniversary, releasing a 600-page tome titled The Watch—Stories and Savoir Faire, as well as the Royal Oak Jumbo Extra-Thin Selfwinding Flying Tourbillon Chronograph RD#5.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2025
Concurrent with the compound complexity of contemporary cars, most have become mind-numbing thick-as-a-brick tomes.
—Jim Gorzelany, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tome
book
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Another surprise is the stealth-like performance of Regretting You, the adaptation of the Colleen Hoover book.—
Pamela McClintock,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Nov. 2025
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Set on Christmas Eve, this adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg's beloved 1985 children's book follows a young boy whose waning belief in Santa Claus is reinvigorated after hopping on a magical train to the North Pole.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Tome.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tome. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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