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
Paul Ridden
july 31, New Atlas, 31 July 2025
These positions include manual jobs in manufacturing, hospitality roles, or interpersonal work, which still require a steady pipeline of human workers.
—Bob Violino, CNBC, 26 July 2025
Peter Kinget, IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2025
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recognizes three categories of distracted driving: visual, manual, and cognitive distraction.
—Nino Paoli, Fortune, 30 July 2025
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Noun
Screen sizes up to 300 diagonal inches are supported, and manual keystone correction is included.
—Paul Ridden
july 31, New Atlas, 31 July 2025
These positions include manual jobs in manufacturing, hospitality roles, or interpersonal work, which still require a steady pipeline of human workers.
—Bob Violino, CNBC, 26 July 2025
Adjective
The Web site has a complete set of tutorials and a lab experiments manual ready to go.
—Peter Kinget, IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2025
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recognizes three categories of distracted driving: visual, manual, and cognitive distraction.
—Nino Paoli, Fortune, 30 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for manual
Noun
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The handbook adds administrators have the right to confiscate a phone when a student breaks the rule.—
Krista Johnson,
The Courier-Journal,
3 Aug. 2025
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The handbook says inmates can also play sports, attend religious services and access televisions.—
James Bickerton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The lunch special for the month of August is a hot honey pimento cheese sandwich on homemade white bread served with a garden side salad ($11.95).—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 Aug. 2025
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Even the tonic is homemade with mandarins and blood oranges, so stopping in for a refreshing drink is well worth it.—
Rebecca Deurlein,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Traditional supervised learning demands that developers label every snippet with exact text—a costly, error‑prone bottleneck.—
Ashutosh Synghal,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Another clip released in May showed Rush's wife Wendy monitoring data and text communications on board a support vessel, Polar Prince and is believed to have captured the moment that the sound of the implosion reached the surface.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Manual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/manual. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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