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Recent Examples of how-to Rising Together by Sally Helgesen The latest book by Helgesen is an action plan filled with how-to tips. Dr. Ruth Gotian, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023 For more, check out our Best Turntables guide and our how-to article on upgrading your home audio. Parker Hall, WIRED, 5 Mar. 2023 As a former residential and commercial carpenter, Alex uses his hands-on experience to write practical buying guides, how-to articles, and product reviews. Alex Rennie, Popular Mechanics, 3 Mar. 2023 To further connect with the community, Gao hopes to one day host classes for home brewing and offer other interactive how-to events. Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023 See All Example Sentences for how-to
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Noun
  • That work has helped to update the American manual for the design of power lines, which engineers use for designing safer, more storm-resilient transmission towers.
    Amal Elawady, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Medical authorities like the pediatrician Luther Emmett Holt, whose 1894 The Care and Feeding of Children would become the most popular parenting manual of the early 20th century, advised parents to feed their toddlers milk at every meal.
    Made by History, Time, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Last July, Driver opened up to PEOPLE about her relationship with Henry, saying that there is really no handbook for how to parent.
    Hannah Sacks, People.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • The church’s stance continues to evolve and in 2020, the church updated its handbook to explicitly allow vaping of medical marijuana when authorized by a medical provider.
    Tribune Content Agency, Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • On the opposite end of the scale, an American game streamer and his YouTuber buddy are ditching the smartphones that are the staple of their generation and attempting to cross Japan by motorbike without so much as a guidebook.
    Hassan Tayir, CNN Money, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Trump supporters who are adherents of the Heritage Foundation’s 900-page Project 2025 policy guidebook backed a proposal to raise the retirement age from 67 to 69.
    Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The never-ending hurry-up-and-waits are why he’s always got a couple weighty tomes stacked in his lap, his taste running from big-cheese biographies (of Elia Kazan and Abraham Lincoln, among others) to bestsellers, including Conclave.
    Phoebe Eaton, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2025
  • This is a tome for all of us who’ve become Fat + Flour disciples over the years.
    Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025

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