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tome

[tohm] / toʊm /


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“A Screaming Life” isn’t a massive tome, but it still manages to dive deep when it matters, and also when you least expect it to.

From Salon Jun. 9, 2026

Ferrer won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in history for “Cuba: An American History,” a tome spanning more than five centuries of entanglement between the island and the United States.

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 2026

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

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

With its iron bindings, the tome weighed seventy-five pounds.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

One gets the sense that, were you to crack open one of the tomes, a mystery would come falling out from between its pages.

From Salon Sep. 7, 2026

Kyiv's Pochaina second-hand book market was also struck, wiping out hundreds of individual stalls and countless treasured tomes.

From BBC Aug. 31, 2026

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

Using a modified version of Francis Bacon’s system, Jefferson sorted his tomes into the categories of Memory, Reason and Imagination.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 10, 2026

It had a huge range, everything from serious academic tomes to a “Sky King Spy Detecto Writer,” found in a box of breakfast cereal.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield




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