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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 After Moscow launched a war against Ukraine, broke with the West, and pivoted toward non-Western audiences, Putin firmly embraced civilizational discourse, which is now official policy and a mainstay of presidential speeches and even schoolbooks.—Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025 Finally, the Supreme Court issued a major religion decision about the rights of parents to opt their children out of classes in which material, like schoolbooks with LGBTQ characters, violate their religious beliefs.—Nina Totenberg, NPR, 27 June 2025 Books are being banned – books by award-winning Black authors like Toni Morrison and the deleting of Black history from our children’s schoolbooks and classes.—Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for schoolbook
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