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Recent Examples of hardback
Since new-release audiobooks typically cost as much as hardback copies, the three premium downloads make the $3 cost of this three-month subscription period a no-brainer.
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Clint Davis, People.com, 22 Mar. 2025
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
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Clint Davis, People.com, 22 Mar. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hardback
Noun
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Their first encounters, like those of Malaparte’s other early American readers, came via pulpy Signet paperbacks in the nineteen-fifties.—
Thomas Meaney,
New Yorker,
2 July 2025
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Gen was stupidly tall and although her shoes were falling apart, her relaxed, graceful pace made Emily think of paintings of gentlemen from bygone eras, the kind on paperbacks like The Age of Innocence.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 June 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 30 Jul. 2025.
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