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paperback

[pey-per-bak] / ˈpeɪ pərˌbæk /




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Repackaged, deluxe paperback editions of the other titles in the “Patternist” series — “Patternmaster,” “Mind of My Mind,” “Wild Seed” and “Clay’s Ark” — will be released June 23, the day after Butler’s birthday.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

The device, roughly the size of a paperback book, produces small amounts of power by capturing energy released as these microorganisms break down organic material in dirt.

From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2026

It’s a world in which it is easier to fail than to succeed, a world that a lot of people picking up a paperback for quarter at the drug store would have recognized.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

“It ranges from like, something you’d read in your freshman year of philosophy to something that was a 1970s airport paperback thriller.”

From Salon • Mar. 23, 2026

She rooted for a moment in a box and brought out a paperback called Eight Bullets, which she passed to me for examination.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson