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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 law requires manufacturers to give consumers and independent repair shops access to what’s needed to diagnose and repair certain electronics, including manuals, replacement parts and tools.
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Tiffani Jackson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 Sep. 2026
Your inventive mind can find a fair solution, Aquarius, but the best system is one people will follow without needing a twelve-page instruction manual.
That dictionary someone gave Joe for his big day might have gathered dust on his shelves back in Highgate for a week or so.
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Ben Jureidini,
Vanity Fair,
15 Aug. 2026
After refining their word-swapping dictionary over three months, the ShieldFont creators ended up with a list of nearly 12,000 common words that can be replaced with ligatures.