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Recent Examples of handbook Historically, security at ICE facilities has been about protecting agents and detainees from internal threats like detainee aggression, or gang violence, mimicking the criminal justice system, according to experts, ICE detentions standards and the detainee handbook. Rick Jervis, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025 However, there is a social media handbook for the Navy that outlines expectations for sailors’ online conduct. Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2025 The first step is to review your company material—handbooks, trainings, core values, everything—and make sure your professional self is 100% aligned with company expectations. Sean Willchene, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025 The end goal is to have the information that could eventually be included in international handbooks that serve as reference resources for licensing and safety analysis of nuclear systems. Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for handbook
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Noun
  • Observed manual ware washing without proper sanitization.
    Gege Reed, Louisville Courier Journal, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Before attempting to clean a filter, check your system’s manual or the manufacturer’s guidelines to confirm whether it’s designed for single use.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • When instructing his students to open their textbooks to page 67, Dannenbring will suddenly adopt the timbre of his enthusiastic seventh graders, who immediately protest their teacher using a phrase that does not belong to him.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Alabama has won in each of its last nine home outings against the Volunteers, 10 if including the 2005 victory that was later vacated due to the 2009 textbook scandal.
    Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.
    Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 27 Oct. 2025
  • According to the institute, the device can handle multiple data types at once — including text, images, and speech — enabling it to perform model training and reasoning with high speed and efficiency.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia — fear of long words (The longest word found in major English dictionaries is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a 45-letter word describing a lung disease caused by inhaling fine silica dust.
    Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2025
  • For the first time in 20 years, the company that publishes reference books and is mostly known for its dictionaries, is releasing a brand new edition of its iconic Collegiate Dictionary.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Handbook.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/handbook. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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