schoolbook

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Recent Examples of schoolbook Among the items tested were Mary Kay's schoolbooks, found stacked at the scene. — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 15 Feb. 2026 Car 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 See All Example Sentences for schoolbook
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  1. text
  2. textbook
  3. handbook
  4. manual
  5. dictionary
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  • That caught the attention of his professor Allan Sekula, a conceptual artist who married photography and text to create installations that explored issues of labor and trade.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
  • New Critics insisted that a text’s value lay solely in its language.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of text
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  • In 2013, Pearson graduated as valedictorian of Mitchell High School, after leading protests at the school to demand textbooks for students.
    — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Foyles Educational supplied textbooks and prizes to schools, and the library department provided a similar service for public libraries.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of textbook
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  • The records don't establish whether parents were told about the facilitator handbook's guidance on gender identity, pronouns and nonbinary participants.
    — Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026
  • The standard fix fails because handbooks rot the day they are written.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of handbook
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  • Every infrastructure organization has experienced people who know far more about how work actually gets done than any procedure or manual can realistically capture.
    — Balaji Sreenivasan, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026
  • The team also read research studies about Georgia’s early childcare system and the state’s own policy and rule manuals.
    — Justin Price, AJC.com, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of manual
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  • Performed by legends Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, the silly song is a tongue-twister for kiddos, and the titular word, which means ‘extraordinarily good, wonderful’ even made its way into some real deal dictionaries.
    — Stephanie Ganz Published, Parents, 18 Oct. 2026
  • According to Merriam-Webster, a word has to be used by many, who all agree on the meaning for it, in order for the word to be considered worth adding to the dictionary.
    — Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of dictionary

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“Schoolbook.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolbook. Accessed 23 Oct. 2026.

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