as in handbook
a book used for instruction in a subject
the school's science curriculum suffers from a serious lack of up-to-date texts
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Recent Examples of text
Reconstructing historic and modern potato late blight outbreaks using text analytics
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Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2025
If text messaging is more of your thing, grow your text list and use SMS to send timely updates, event invitations, or promotions that land directly in your audience’s hands.
—Amanda Miller Littlejohn, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
The two — whose jobs entailed working with a variety of teams to ensure an item’s strategy, development and success — began messaging on the app before moving to text and making plans for a first date in Brooklyn later that month.
—Jenny Block, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
There may be some differences between the audio and the text.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2025
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Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2025
If text messaging is more of your thing, grow your text list and use SMS to send timely updates, event invitations, or promotions that land directly in your audience’s hands.
—Amanda Miller Littlejohn, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
The two — whose jobs entailed working with a variety of teams to ensure an item’s strategy, development and success — began messaging on the app before moving to text and making plans for a first date in Brooklyn later that month.
—Jenny Block, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
There may be some differences between the audio and the text.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2025
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These pies must meet the strict requirements of the Associazione Vera Pizza Napoletana, which issues a handbook of instructions, not unlike the team’s playbook, to certify the pizza is created in classic Neapolitan style.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
2 Jan. 2025
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According to the inmate handbook for FCI Dublin, inmates must wake up by 5 a.m. and be in their housing units for daily counts at 4:30 am.—
Martha Ross,
The Mercury News,
5 Dec. 2024
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Many pediatricians have never even seen chickenpox outside of a textbook.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
28 Jan. 2025
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The founder of the Art Lawyers Association, Wilson holds law degrees from the Sorbonne and King’s College, London, and is the author of the legal textbook Art Law and the Business of Art.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
8 Jan. 2025
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Some of the initiatives sounded less like amendments to bureaucratic procedure (the usual scope of executive orders) than like a manual for a startup society.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
The New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2025
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It’s all outlined in the manual, but the bottle cap, which goes on for the carbonating process, has fast and slow pressure release tabs.—
Emily Farris,
Bon Appétit,
24 Jan. 2025
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The downside is that since that wasn’t the main goal, and since the volume and variety of French words encountered might be relatively slim, this English-French dictionary is not necessarily going to be complete.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
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Merriam-Webster is one of the final few English-language dictionary platforms to release its annual word.—
Karina Tsui,
CNN,
9 Dec. 2024
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“Text.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/text. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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