primers

noun

plural of primer
as in handbooks
a book used for instruction in a subject a primer of human anatomy

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Recent Examples of primers But everything changed after a 1954 Life Magazine article, which argued that literacy rates were tanking because children were bored with Dick and Jane primers. — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 11 July 2026 The pros recommend primers with gripping technology and hydrating ingredients, like glycerin, plant oils, shea butter, and hyaluronic acid. — Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 27 June 2026 In addition to the Spackle SPF and Champagne Glow primers, the actress also uses the hydrating version on the regular. — Clara McMahon, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026 But that wistfulness is balanced with an urgent call to action, as primers on past civil rights legislation highlight the fragility of progress and interactive displays solicit commitments for civic service. — Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 4 June 2026 Moisturizers, face oils, and primers are a key first step to ensuring that the makeup going onto your face afterwards will apply and sit right. — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 22 May 2026 And many primers are unnecessarily facile. — Mac Barnett, Longreads, 5 May 2026 Face mists can also be used as primers in makeup application. — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2026 These nursery primers turned out to be the start of Tennyson’s lifetime immersion in contemporary science. — Kathryn Hughes, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for primers
  1. handbooks
  2. manuals
  3. dictionaries
  4. textbooks
  5. texts
Noun
  • By referencing the federal FMLA baseline and deferring to applicable state law for employees with greater rights, employee handbooks can absorb each new development without a revision cycle.
    — Jennifer Morehead, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • Her concern is in the language being used in the handbooks and the policy draft.
    — Julianna Mejia, Kansas City Star, 30 June 2026
Definition of handbooks
Noun
  • The era of risk-aware grid design The future of Western energy relies on moving away from static, 20th-century safety manuals and toward a practice called risk-aware dispatching.
    — Jasmine Garland, The Conversation, 7 July 2026
  • But while those other manuals for the mind became bestsellers, The Backpacker stayed on the margins.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 June 2026
Definition of manuals
Noun
  • Christmas hams, party cocktails, elegant layer cakes, and cookout classics fill the dictionaries of Southern family recipes, but one of my favorites is a simple vinaigrette from my grandmother.
    — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 2 July 2026
  • Adopt a sensitive data detection platform that’s access-control-aware and lineage-savvy and extend it with custom dictionaries and RegEx patterns.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Definition of dictionaries
Noun
  • To have a class project become a national program that is helping individuals with Down syndrome build real independence is the kind of real-world impact that goes beyond textbooks.
    — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 5 July 2026
  • In the afternoon, students will partake in book clubs that read novels — a dying art in traditional public schools, driven in part by the increasing popularity of literacy curriculum programs that favor textbooks with short reading passages over whole books.
    — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 27 June 2026
Definition of textbooks
Noun
  • In addition to hieroglyph texts, the interior walls feature murals depicting portraits of seated and kneeling figures, and archaeological evidence of papermaking tools.
    — Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 14 July 2026
  • Olive answers many of the 55-year-old’s texts and emails, books him spontaneous travel (three trips to London so far this year), buys him groceries, and places meetings on his calendar—often without ever consulting him.
    — Margaux MacColl, Vanity Fair, 14 July 2026
Definition of texts

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