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Recent Examples of schoolbookAmong 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
Now that the industry is moving from AI that makes text and images to AI that takes actions, via agents that can shop on people’s behalf, the stakes are much higher.
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Rumman Chowdhury,
Vogue,
13 Oct. 2026
Club members, check your texts and email inboxes for our full Club earnings analysis alerts on Goldman and Wells Fargo, as well as J & J coming in soon.
After an eight-play, 71-yard jaunt by the Rams tied the game at 27 with seven minutes and 14 seconds to go, the teams traded especially textbook scoring drives.
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Rohan Nadkarni,
NBC news,
13 Oct. 2026
At times, the photographs have the glossy, didactic quality of the figures in a textbook.
Thoughtful extras include a handy waterproof bag for wet swimwear and the gift of a black handbook with the owner’s favorite island haunts.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
6 Oct. 2026
In Arkansas, private schools participating in the voucher-like program have to be accredited or working toward it, which often requires creating curriculum and school handbooks.
The technology is still early, and there isn’t enough independent evidence yet to say a camera toothbrush cleans better than a good manual or electric brush used with proper brushing technique.
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Ryan Brennan,
Charlotte Observer,
7 Oct. 2026
Instead of searching through hundreds of manuals to service industrial equipment, AI can identify the specific engine, understand where it’s installed, retrieve its service history and recommend the right repairs.
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.
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Latoya Gayle,
PEOPLE,
20 Sep. 2026
The famed dictionary added 1,400 new words to its dictionary on Wednesday, many focused on internet-first phases and trends.