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Sam has encouraged the boy to be more conscientious with his studies and has been learning alongside him for years, picking up his schoolbooks and offering ideas on how to make the assignments more meaningful.—Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026 When Reconstruction ended, schoolbooks that did not portray the South’s Lost Cause as a war of valor were banned.—Literary Hub, 30 Mar. 2026 Car dashboards with controls that only appear when they're needed, schoolbooks and maps that physically animate concepts.—New Atlas, 15 Dec. 2025 In crude mines across Central and Sub-Saharan Africa, hands that should hold pencils and schoolbooks hammer rocks and search for the minerals that power electric vehicle batteries, solar cells, and wind turbines.—Xanthe Scharff, Time, 22 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for schoolbook