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Recent Examples of schoolbook
There is a naïve element to her spiral designs in birthday party colors, like doodles in a schoolbook.
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Leah Dolan, CNN, 4 Feb. 2025
As Jad spoke in schoolbook English, Fawzi listened and nodded or whispered corrections.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
The signs of Meta, Circle, and AI House, and the logo of the Mohammed bin Salman Foundation were being taken down from the fronts of the buildings, revealing a bakery, a massage parlor, a schoolbook shop, a hotel.
—Caitlín Doherty, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
Judging from contemporary catalogs and advertisements, booksellers saw the text not as a mathematical treatise or schoolbook, but rather a piece of popular literature worthy of mass attention.
—James Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
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Leah Dolan, CNN, 4 Feb. 2025
As Jad spoke in schoolbook English, Fawzi listened and nodded or whispered corrections.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
The signs of Meta, Circle, and AI House, and the logo of the Mohammed bin Salman Foundation were being taken down from the fronts of the buildings, revealing a bakery, a massage parlor, a schoolbook shop, a hotel.
—Caitlín Doherty, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
Judging from contemporary catalogs and advertisements, booksellers saw the text not as a mathematical treatise or schoolbook, but rather a piece of popular literature worthy of mass attention.
—James Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schoolbook
Noun
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The Chronicle’s reporters also reviewed medical records about a pregnancy and STD texts a week after the alleged assault.—
Seema Mehta,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
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Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.—
NWA Democrat-Gazette,
Arkansas Online,
10 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The learning process involves no textbooks, no exercises, no memorization, no facts.—
Kristen Roupenian,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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The dispute is a textbook example of a neighborhood pushing back against development.—
Kenneth R. Gosselin,
Hartford Courant,
5 Apr. 2026
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The forthcoming guide, which education officials have described as a first step toward a more comprehensive handbook to be issued at a later date, is coming as families and teachers are deeply divided and anxious about the potential — and pitfalls — of the new technology.—
Cayla Bamberger,
New York Daily News,
23 Mar. 2026
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There's no universal handbook for buyers who want to stay on the right side of ethics.—
Shaun McKinnon,
AZCentral.com,
9 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The Phillips curve became a manual for managing inflation, at least up until the 1970s, when the American economy started acting… differently.—
Alex Mayyasi,
NPR,
7 Apr. 2026
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Now, though, with the widespread circulation of magic manuals, grimoires, and related compendia—with the recording, on paper, of words, spells, histories, stories—witchcraft has taken an irreversible step into the exoteric realm.—
Kristen Roupenian,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The word was considered so vulgar that it was left out of early dictionaries and was rarely printed, though Adams says people were certainly using it.—
Harmeet Kaur,
CNN Money,
8 Apr. 2026
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Like Follman, Charleston turns to the dictionary for a definition of metaphor.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Apr. 2026
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“Schoolbook.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolbook. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.
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