as in book
a set of printed sheets of paper bound together between covers and forming a work of fiction or nonfiction
picked up a thick tome on the Roman Empire at a used book store
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Recent Examples of tome
There’s the 618-page tome released in 2017 by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine and overseen by 14 professors.
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Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2025
Cracking open the vaults to centuries-old tomes could be a data bonanza for tech companies battling lawsuits from living novelists, visual artists, and others whose creative works have been scooped up without their consent to train AI chatbots.
—Matt O'Brien, Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2025
Longtime science-of-running fans will remember Magness as the author of the encyclopedic tome The Science of Running a decade ago.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 9 June 2025
The book contains 75 signature dishes packed into a petite size, the tiny tome measuring only 5 1/2-by-7 inches.
—Cathy Thomas, Mercury News, 28 May 2025
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Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2025
Cracking open the vaults to centuries-old tomes could be a data bonanza for tech companies battling lawsuits from living novelists, visual artists, and others whose creative works have been scooped up without their consent to train AI chatbots.
—Matt O'Brien, Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2025
Longtime science-of-running fans will remember Magness as the author of the encyclopedic tome The Science of Running a decade ago.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 9 June 2025
The book contains 75 signature dishes packed into a petite size, the tiny tome measuring only 5 1/2-by-7 inches.
—Cathy Thomas, Mercury News, 28 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tome
Noun
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The book is published with Forbes Books, the exclusive business book publishing imprint of Forbes.—
Forbes Books Press Release Official,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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The half-giant Hagrid features in every Harry Potter book and is one of the first characters to appear in The Philosopher’s Stone.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
15 July 2025
Noun
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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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Will be available in paperback or digitally via Amazon .—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
12 June 2025
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“Tome.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tome. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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