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Recent Examples of schoolbookCar dashboards with controls that only appear when they're needed, schoolbooks and maps that physically animate concepts.—New Atlas, 15 Dec. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for schoolbook
The juxtapositions of text and image, which strongly suggest the widening distance between mother and daughter, build in emotional and intellectual power over the film’s ninety-minute duration.
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Rachel Syme,
New Yorker,
8 May 2026
The campaign tactic seems to resemble musician Charli XCX’s 2024 album, brat, complete with the same lime-green and black text that became synonymous with the sensation.
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Britta Miller,
The Washington Examiner,
8 May 2026
Many of them encountered the condition only in medical school textbooks.
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Duaa Eldeib,
CNN Money,
8 May 2026
Media ethics textbooks are starting to include some non-Western philosophies, such as Eastern religious principles from Islam and Buddhism, Chinese communitarian principles from Confucius, and African humanitarian principles such as Ubuntu.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
7 May 2026
Let’s be honest, what Forest have done in 2025-26, or indeed for much of the last few seasons, wouldn’t make the ‘how to run a football club’ handbook.
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Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
1 May 2026
The proposal also provides that certain common business models and practices, such as providing a sample employee handbook or requiring anti-harassment training, don’t by themselves make joint employer status more likely.
Although the car is normally available with either a six-speed manual or a seven-speed PDK dual-clutch gearbox, the special edition is expected to only be available with the latter.
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Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
28 Apr. 2026
The Scooby Doo quest, the heart of the night, comes complete with a 14-page manual full of character bios, clues and missions.