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tomes

noun as in large, scholarly book

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Some of them were serious tomes, yes, but there were Agatha Christie novels, Orwell’s “1984” and art books too.

In practice, this has led to tomes of environmental impact reports, including volumes of soil testing and traffic modeling studies, and sometimes years of disputes in court.

Levitsky attended Stanford and then UC Berkeley, and likely would have spent his career in relative obscurity, writing academic tomes about political parties in Argentina.

It was an astonishing personal library, her friends recalled: a collection on art, fashion, history and design tomes that bowed even the sturdiest shelving.

Adapting the Warhammer universe and its vast tomes of lore - background information about the different races and characters within it - can be a challenge.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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