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
The text is enhanced by the inclusion of numerous black-and-white photographs of Tokyo.
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The New Yorker, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
Her appeal asks the Supreme Court to reconsider , claiming the 2015 decision was wrongly decided and not grounded in the nation’s history or constitutional text.
—Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
What’s in the funding deal The text of the funding deal that helped spur Sunday’s breakthrough leaves many of those priorities unaddressed.
—Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 10 Nov. 2025
But that informal deal is not part of the official legislative text to reopen the government.
—NPR, 10 Nov. 2025
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The New Yorker, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
Her appeal asks the Supreme Court to reconsider , claiming the 2015 decision was wrongly decided and not grounded in the nation’s history or constitutional text.
—Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
What’s in the funding deal The text of the funding deal that helped spur Sunday’s breakthrough leaves many of those priorities unaddressed.
—Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 10 Nov. 2025
But that informal deal is not part of the official legislative text to reopen the government.
—NPR, 10 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for text
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The process, carried out by regional district councils and overseen by the national office, requires disgraced pastors to step away from ministry for at least a year and undergo Christian counseling, according to a 135-page restoration handbook obtained by NBC News.—
Mike Hixenbaugh,
NBC news,
30 Oct. 2025
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While the sheriff’s office does not have a policy explicitly barring deputies from living out of state, employees are required to report their primary addresses to the department, according to the county handbook.—
Ryan Macasero,
Mercury News,
28 Oct. 2025
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Entertaining is a discipline, one worthy of study, and this is its textbook.—
Leah Asmelash,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
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This month, young readers can curl up with nonfiction explorations of the galaxy, thumb through an old astronomy textbook with a fresh new story to tell, or experience the peace of being (almost) alone on the moon.—
Caroline Carlson,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Boeing didn’t mention the system in airplane manuals, and most pilots didn’t know about it.—
Jamie Stengle,
Fortune,
6 Nov. 2025
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Their experience is a manual for the rest of us.—
Natalie Unterstell,
Time,
6 Nov. 2025
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To do this, lawyers and judges will often use dictionaries published at the time the Constitution or an amendment to it was published, along with other writings.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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The term really got its start back in the late 1990s, and was added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary in 2002.—
Ayana Archie,
NPR,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Text.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/text. Accessed 29 Nov. 2025.
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