schoolbook

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Definition of schoolbooknext
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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
Noun
  • The pact's full text has not been released, and its command and operational structures are still being developed.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Be careful with links arriving through unexpected texts or emails.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of text
Noun
  • Housing, food, transportation, textbooks and childcare can determine whether a student stays enrolled.
    — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Anyone who is going to be active in the market needs to be familiar with this textbook thinking.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of textbook
Noun
  • Mentorship helps transfer institutional knowledge, culture and context that are hard to capture in a handbook.
    — John Abusaid, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
  • That’s the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — the authoritative handbook of mental disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association and used by mental health professionals in the United States.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of handbook
Noun
  • One retail distributor wanted to issue chargebacks because the hangers didn’t meet the specifications in its manual.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 25 Sep. 2026
  • The Japanese public get the option of either a six-speed manual or a six-speed automatic transmission.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of manual
Noun
  • 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
  • The famed dictionary added 1,400 new words to its dictionary on Wednesday, many focused on internet-first phases and trends.
    — CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of dictionary

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“Schoolbook.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolbook. Accessed 2 Oct. 2026.

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