as in classic
constituting, serving as, or worthy of being a pattern to be imitated
a textbook example of a film that captures the feel of the novel on which it is based
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as in handbook
a book used for instruction in a subject
one shelf in my bookcase is crammed full of my old college textbooks
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Samuel Goldman, The Week, 22 Sep. 2021
The vegan ramen was originally developed for Afuri’s Portland, Ore., location with the goal of being a lighter, decidedly non-textbook option.
—Flora Tsapovsky, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Sep. 2021
Sandra Rose Salathe, Flow Space, 3 Oct. 2024
Shifting from high technology to fashion, the most common interaction point for consumers with a company like Levi is through retail stores, whose employees are textbook deskless and frontline.
—Phil Kirschner, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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At the same time, solutions borrowed from textbook European nation-states are unlikely to serve us well.
—Samuel Goldman, The Week, 22 Sep. 2021
The vegan ramen was originally developed for Afuri’s Portland, Ore., location with the goal of being a lighter, decidedly non-textbook option.
—Flora Tsapovsky, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Sep. 2021
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An additional study found that 58% of medical textbooks used globally didn’t mention menopause at all, and 12% gave it less than a paragraph.
—Sandra Rose Salathe, Flow Space, 3 Oct. 2024
Shifting from high technology to fashion, the most common interaction point for consumers with a company like Levi is through retail stores, whose employees are textbook deskless and frontline.
—Phil Kirschner, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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As Claude leaves a weirdly nonspecific voicemail for Valentina in the next room (another classic blunder), Roselyn scoops some cyanide-containing silver polish out of its container on his desk and stirs it briskly into his tea.Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
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Disney chefs sprinkled candy cane bits and pumped peppermint into the park’s classic hot chocolate.Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 7 Nov. 2024
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The handbook, reviewed by WIRED, is the result of months of painstaking work by Gifford and about seven others who make up the Volunteer Nevada! group, which is dedicated to election integrity efforts.David Gilbert, WIRED, 4 Nov. 2024
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Getting team buy-in on company culture is much more effective when core values are put into action, rather than simply written in the employee handbook or on the company website.Expert Panel®, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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From Target-Centric Leader To Visionary Storyteller Leaders who are elevated to the C-suite often have a record of exemplary performance, as measured by targets or metrics achieved.S. Venkatesh, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Freeman’s joy and pain, along with LeBron’s savviness and protectiveness of his own children, are exemplary.Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2024
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Although college students seem to be the most targeted with the texts, Black people of varying ages have reported receiving the messages.Char Adams, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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The tool can modify sentences or longer sections of text to shorten or lengthen the word count, change the tone, or format it in a different way.Kate Irwin, PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
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Rather than only considering any one number in isolation to assess a model and determine whether and how to deploy it, your team must work with visuals like a savings or profit curve that convey the complete range of model-deployment options.Eric Siegel, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
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According to online reports, the buyers are model Olivia Culpo and her San Francisco 49ers husband Christian McCaffrey, who picked up the nearly 3.2-acre spread for $14.5 million.Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 30 Sep. 2024
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Many of the manuals reflect this and recommend distributing infostealers via other social media sites or point to GitHub as an effective trafficking method.Joseph Cox, WIRED, 4 Nov. 2024
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Developing cutting-edge AI today is still a manual, handcrafted human activity.Rob Toews, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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Crypto Confidential: Forbes' definitive guide to crypto and blockchain, delivered to your inbox every Saturday.Marie Poteriaieva, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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Researchers have long thought that proto-cuneiform developed from these early accounting methods, but there was no definitive link to show how the transition occurred.Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Textbook.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/textbook. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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