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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
Because the texts would be part of the curriculum, they could be included on standardized testing, potentially impacting the school district’s test record if students do not perform well.
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Elizabeth Wolfe,
CNN Money,
26 June 2026
Following the abrupt dissolution of Disney’s $1 billion investment in OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video app, Shin stressed that there are no plans to use A24’s existing IP to create GenAI tools.
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.
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Cayla Bamberger,
New York Daily News,
27 June 2026
From June of 2004 to July of 2006, as the subprime bubble was inflating, the Fed raised the interest rate 17 times consecutively – a textbook policy of monetary tightening, unprecedented at the time, which should have restrained credit creation.
Now, 15 years later, the law continues to guide district handbooks across Oregon.
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Danya Gainor,
CNN Money,
23 June 2026
Rules for e-bikes and other two-wheel vehicles are contained within the DMV’s California motorcycle handbook, but general traffic knowledge is not commonplace.
OpenClaw will then interpret and complete the tasks automatically without the need to memorize complex commands or the need to resort to complicated reference manuals.
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Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
For people who don’t know the courtesy; new residents, visitors, or anyone simply following the rules in the driver’s manual, a sudden Pittsburgh left can be confusing and dangerous, especially if a third driver or a pedestrian isn’t expecting that quick turn.