as in hardcover
a published work that has a thick paper cover
The store sells both paperbacks and hardcovers.
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Recent Examples of paperback
Fortunately, Vintage released a smaller paperback edition in honor of its 20th anniversary.
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Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 7 June 2025
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
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, 9 June 2025
Her new novel, Villa E, about Modernist Irish designer Eileen Gray, has just come out in paperback.
—Jane Alison
june 17, Literary Hub, 17 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for paperback
book
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Local students can be seen tucking into a book or studying at no-fuss black, metal tables.—
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Jeff May, a mold inspector in Massachusetts who co-wrote a book on improving home health called My House Is Killing Me!—
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“Paperback.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paperback. Accessed 2 Aug. 2025.
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