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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These texts are looking to capitalize on that promise.
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Geoff Harris, Baltimore Sun, 18 Feb. 2025
Don't click on links in texts from unknown senders to try to access a website through the text.
—Kate Gibson, CBS News, 17 Feb. 2025
As one of the foundational poetic texts of Western literature, the story follows Odysseus, King of Ithaca on his dangerous journey home after the Trojan war.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 17 Feb. 2025
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—Ethan Westerman, arkansasonline.com, 7 Feb. 2025
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Geoff Harris, Baltimore Sun, 18 Feb. 2025
Don't click on links in texts from unknown senders to try to access a website through the text.
—Kate Gibson, CBS News, 17 Feb. 2025
As one of the foundational poetic texts of Western literature, the story follows Odysseus, King of Ithaca on his dangerous journey home after the Trojan war.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 17 Feb. 2025
Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.
—Ethan Westerman, arkansasonline.com, 7 Feb. 2025
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That seems like a play straight out of Reba’s handbook.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
11 Feb. 2025
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The handbook recommends pilots experiencing spatial disorientation rely on their instruments over visual information and transfer control to another pilot, since two people rarely experience these illusions at the same time.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
3 Feb. 2025
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Their former schools will be cut off from all public funds — for child nutrition programs, transportation, textbooks and other services — in what advocates suggested was a new phase of a yearslong effort to ensure all students graduate with basic skills in core subjects, such as English and math.—
Cayla Bamberger,
New York Daily News,
18 Feb. 2025
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Supply and demand, the preferences of buyers and sellers, trading rules — the textbooks say these and other factors determine market prices.—
Jeff Sommer,
New York Times,
14 Feb. 2025
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That ability to launch wider investigations appears to have been stripped under Trump; there is no mention of systemic investigations in the new manual.—
Jennifer Smith Richards,
ProPublica,
21 Feb. 2025
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At the royal court, scribes advanced Ottoman Turkish as a language of elite writing, compiling collections of letters to convey correct writing methods, and drawing up a style manual.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
20 Feb. 2025
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Her longer term projects included writing the book Food Festivals: Eating Your Way from Coast to Coast, co-authoring the book Holidays and Festivals Dictionary, and serving as an editor for a synonym dictionary entitled The Synonym Finder, published by Rodale.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
21 Jan. 2025
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Christmas hams, party cocktails, elegant layer cakes, and cookout classics fill the dictionaries of Southern family recipes, but one of my favorites is a simple vinaigrette from my grandmother.—
Mary Shannon Wells,
Southern Living,
11 Jan. 2025
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“Text.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/text. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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