as in handbook
a book used for instruction in a subject
the school's science curriculum suffers from a serious lack of up-to-date texts
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Recent Examples of text
Registered voters were contacted via email or MMS text-to-web, and questions were asked in English.
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Linh Tat, Daily News, 17 Apr. 2026
Like today’s text-to-song systems, the player piano promised polished musical output for people with little or no training.
—Steven Melendez, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2026
There may be some differences between the audio and the text.
—Dana Taylor, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2026
Cameron Winter’s solo record might be a sacred text these days, but it was largely ignored upon its release.
—Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
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Linh Tat, Daily News, 17 Apr. 2026
Like today’s text-to-song systems, the player piano promised polished musical output for people with little or no training.
—Steven Melendez, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2026
There may be some differences between the audio and the text.
—Dana Taylor, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2026
Cameron Winter’s solo record might be a sacred text these days, but it was largely ignored upon its release.
—Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for text
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The American Psychiatric Association’s diagnostic handbook doesn’t list the condition and a 2021 study concluded it is mostly cited as a cause only when the person who died had been restrained.—
Mara H. Gottfried,
Twin Cities,
15 Apr. 2026
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According to Petersson, Luna recently observed one of the employees using their phone during a particularly quiet hour, so the system updated the market's employee handbook to set stricter rules on workers’ phone usage.—
David Ingram,
NBC news,
11 Apr. 2026
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In 1494, Italian mathematician Luca Pacioli first took an early crack at the problem of points in his textbook, the title of which translates to Summary of Arithmetic, Geometry, Proportions and Proportionality.—
Jack Murtagh,
Scientific American,
19 Apr. 2026
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This was a textbook bait-and-switch on San Diego taxpayers.—
Johnny Lee Dang,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Apr. 2026
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The two-bedroom home built in 1949 was considered a modern metal marvel in newspaper articles and in its instruction manual.—
J.D. Miles,
CBS News,
13 Apr. 2026
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Aurangzeb assembled a panel of qualified Indian ʿulamāʾ (religious scholars) to compile this legal manual.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
9 Apr. 2026
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The club supplies 1,000 dictionaries each year for third graders at 10 Darien schools, as well as supports leadership training for high school students, NAMI DuPage, Humanitarian Service Project food for senior citizens in Darien, recycling events and environmental grants.—
Melinda Moore,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Apr. 2026
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According to the dictionary, this word means a record of ownership.—
Tyehimba Jess,
ARTnews.com,
17 Apr. 2026
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“Text.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/text. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.
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