Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the time just before a publication date, especially of a book.
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- adjective Preceding, or in preparation for,
publication
Etymologies
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Examples
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In order to create the monthly Preview issues, we read the prepublication magazines and all the major publishers 'catalogs looking for notable books to highlight.
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You can either spend hundreds of hours and many hundreds of dollars wading through thousands of books in the prepublication magazines and publishers 'catalogs; or you can let us do the work for you!
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Her story graced the cover of TIME last week and a prepublication insert was printed in the Wall Street Journal.
Jason Kitchen: To My Dearest Mumsy: Thank You for Not Being a 'Tiger Mother' Jason Kitchen 2011
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The books we preview are selected either because they are written by well known authors and are thus likely to be of interest to many readers, or because they are books that are receiving particularly strong prepublication reviews.
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Her story graced the cover of TIME last week and a prepublication insert was printed in the Wall Street Journal.
Jason Kitchen: To My Dearest Mumsy: Thank You for Not Being a 'Tiger Mother' Jason Kitchen 2011
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The novel, due out in the U.S. next month, is a best seller in England and has had enthusiastic prepublication reviews here.
A Daily Breakfast of Amnesia Alexandra Alter 2011
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Consider the recent uproar over Amy Chua's Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother -- the prepublication excerpt alone attracting over 1 million reads and 7,500 comments -- which reveals that Americans may be harboring a deep-set fear of other cultures and countries getting ahead, beating our system, "winning," so to say.
Kate Otto: Winning the Future, Losing the Point? Kate Otto 2011
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Consider the recent uproar over Amy Chua's Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother -- the prepublication excerpt alone attracting over 1 million reads and 7,500 comments -- which reveals that Americans may be harboring a deep-set fear of other cultures and countries getting ahead, beating our system, "winning," so to say.
Kate Otto: Winning the Future, Losing the Point? Kate Otto 2011
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Consider the recent uproar over Amy Chua's Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother -- the prepublication excerpt alone attracting over 1 million reads and 7,500 comments -- which reveals that Americans may be harboring a deep-set fear of other cultures and countries getting ahead, beating our system, "winning," so to say.
Kate Otto: Winning the Future, Losing the Point? Kate Otto 2011
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The books we preview are selected either because they are written by well known authors and are thus likely to be of interest to many readers, or because they are books that are receiving particularly strong prepublication reviews.
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