as in handbook
a book used for instruction in a subject
an owner's manual comes with the camera
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Recent Examples of manual
Carrie Arnold, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
From logging expenses to finding customer leads, any number of manual administrative tasks can eat into your day.
—Andrea Timpano, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2025
There’s no manual on how to invent forgeries.
—JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
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Noun
Eliminating the need for manual adjustments—whether for meals or for any other changes during the day—would give people with diabetes a tremendous sense of freedom.
—Carrie Arnold, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
From logging expenses to finding customer leads, any number of manual administrative tasks can eat into your day.
—Andrea Timpano, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
Each bamboo home comes with a DIY manual, instructing users on how to assemble the structure in just seven days at a cost of around US$1,000 to $1,300.
—New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2025
There’s no manual on how to invent forgeries.
—JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for manual
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Across forty pages of perfect derangement, Wagner uses her personal-finance handbook to unspool her divorce odyssey, seizing the ethos that no personal tragedy is too intimate to exploit.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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The book is a policy handbook meant to address the realities of political life following the turmoil of the French Revolution, presenting a Christian alternative to both the authoritarian secular liberalism and counterrevolutionary movements of the day.—
Indianapolis Star,
IndyStar,
3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Bullet marks were later found on the vehicle, according to energy minister Ines Manzano, while days earlier, according to Noboa, another crowd threw Molotov cocktails and homemade rockets at his vehicle.—
Max Saltman,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
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The hack works for all types of bread but is especially helpful for loaves that don't include preservatives, like homemade and artisanal breads.—
Melissa Locker,
Southern Living,
24 Oct. 2025
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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.—
Bill Bowden,
Arkansas Online,
21 Oct. 2025
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Soon after the May 2024 text exchange, the group chat disbanded.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Manual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/manual. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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