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
The original text of the Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act called for the NASA administrator and the Smithsonian to jointly develop a plan for moving Discovery prior to appropriations being made by Congress.
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Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 30 June 2025
Otherwise, good luck getting a response by text right away.
—Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 30 June 2025
After hours of negotiations on and off the Senate floor, the upper chamber voted 51-49 to advance the tax bill to an eventual floor debate, but not until after the entire 940-page text is read aloud.
—Zach Lachance, The Washington Examiner, 29 June 2025
In the clip, the team is seen monitoring data and text communications.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 19 June 2025
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Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 30 June 2025
Otherwise, good luck getting a response by text right away.
—Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 30 June 2025
After hours of negotiations on and off the Senate floor, the upper chamber voted 51-49 to advance the tax bill to an eventual floor debate, but not until after the entire 940-page text is read aloud.
—Zach Lachance, The Washington Examiner, 29 June 2025
In the clip, the team is seen monitoring data and text communications.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 19 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for text
Noun
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The student handbook says that students’ cellphones should not be seen, heard or accessed for any reason during class time.—
Alecia Taylor,
Kansas City Star,
15 May 2025
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Drivers and employees are also weighing in on an update of the department’s decade-old handbook and helping to create a new policy that determines who gets to pick up field trip gigs.—
Lina Ruiz,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Apr. 2025
Noun
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And that setting of a vision and aligning people towards that vision—especially those who typically march to their own drum beat—is the textbook Harvard Business School definition of effective leadership.—
Jeetendr Sehdev,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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Put it all together, and this year has been a textbook example of how a negative NIIP profile can magnify currency turmoil, Ford warned.—
Alicia Adamczyk,
Fortune,
28 June 2025
Noun
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At the heart of any successful franchise is nailed-on recruitment processes, a robust and fair franchise agreement, a comprehensive operations manual, tried and tested processes and procedures, great support systems and of course the financials.—
Fiona Simpson,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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Apparently unsatisfied with the superior versions Europeans already had, Audi even whipped up a special S6 Plus version for the car’s final year of 1997, which came with a 322-hp version of the V-8 and a six-speed manual as standard equipment.—
Will Sabel Courtney,
Robb Report,
24 June 2025
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Being the kind of girl who used to read the introductions to dictionaries—and loves etymology enough to subscribe to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED)—I had to look it up.—
Renae Gregoire,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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The latest system of this kind supported a dictionary of roughly 1,300 words.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
29 June 2025
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“Text.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/text. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.
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