tomes
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The fan art features moody Ivy League backdrops with bunny ears, heavy tomes, blood-red candles and saccharine doll-like fashion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
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
Artificial intelligence is becoming a vital utility for anyone analyzing dense securities filings, making quick work of once-impenetrable tomes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026
There, in Dallben’s chamber, moldering tomes overflowed the sagging shelves and spilled onto the floor amid heaps of iron cook-pots, studded belts, harps with or without strings, and other oddments.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
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