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[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

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

The audiobook version of the tome, published in 2020, was narrated by Del Valle herself.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2025

Alas, the only books Penelope had close at hand were the cannibal book, her own book of melancholy German poetry in translation, Alexander’s book of Shakespeare sonnets, and Mr. Gibbon’s tome about the Roman Empire.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood




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