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tome

[tohm] / toʊm /


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It’s a peculiarly hefty tome if you buy Sellers’s own oft-repeated claim that he had no personality of his own.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 12, 2026

For historians and rubbernecking readers alike, “All the President’s Men” would be a necessary tome, a how-to on exposing corruption.

From Salon Mar. 7, 2026

But what I found when I dug into the nearly 500-page tome is that we never should have listened to Attia in the first place.

From Slate Feb. 26, 2026

Federline responds to the stories and accusations that Spears tells in her 2023 tome, in which she describes being financially and emotionally controlled by those closest to her.

From BBC Oct. 24, 2025

Grand Maester Pycelle was seated at his table, his head pillowed on the great leather-bound tome before him.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

The Berkshire proxy is readable and runs less than 20 pages and compares with the 100-plus page tomes that most big companies issue.

From Barron's Mar. 16, 2026

He plowed through graphic-design books and tomes of logos featuring obscure examples like Hungarian oil companies from the ’80s.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 13, 2025

"I looked at each individual part, comparing its appearance to old tomes where scholars drew out the jellyfish anatomy by hand. A real challenge when you look at just how many tangled parts it has."

From Science Daily Nov. 1, 2025

Sadly, he only sells enough tomes to keep gas in his beat-up van and pursue his calling as Tulsa’s resident “truthstorian,” a blend of journalist and conspiracist.

From Salon Sep. 23, 2025

There, in Dallben’s chamber, moldering tomes overflowed the sagging shelves and spilled onto the floor amid heaps of iron cook-pots, studded belts, harps with or without strings, and other oddments.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander




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