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text

noun

ˈtekst

Definition of text

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 Like many 20-somethings, my friends and I have mostly moved on from texts, preferring to send one another voice recordings instead. — Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026 Gounder’s next few texts to Eric became progressively more grim, however. — Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 8 July 2026 But the last two hours, my phone’s been getting lots of texts from people that have helped bring the show to life. — Mckinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 8 July 2026 In regulated consumer messaging, a 17-year-old can't legally opt in to marketing texts, and a general model has no idea. — Harshil Shah, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for text

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Her concern is in the language being used in the handbooks and the policy draft.

— Julianna Mejia, Kansas City Star, 30 June 2026
Now, 15 years later, the law continues to guide district handbooks across Oregon.

— Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 23 June 2026

Definition of handbook

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Entomologists actually still use his textbook and it’s considered a bible of Filipino mosquitoes.

— Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 1 July 2026
In the afternoon, students will partake in book clubs that read novels — a dying art in traditional public schools, driven in part by the increasing popularity of literacy curriculum programs that favor textbooks with short reading passages over whole books.

— Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 27 June 2026

Definition of textbook

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Smid then shifted his questioning to the definition of administrative leave provided in the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office’s general orders manual.

— Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 July 2026
Unlike simple query-response models, agentic workflows represent a move from manual prompting to a new era of delegating and empowering autonomy with agents that act on behalf of the business.

— Sam Rastogi, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026

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Let Maggie Gyllenhaal adapt The Bell Jar • Why Soledad Acosta de Samper’s Dolores is a unicorn to translators • Ed Simon explores Noah Webster’s dictionary • Can American presidents declare war?

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 July 2026
Christmas hams, party cocktails, elegant layer cakes, and cookout classics fill the dictionaries of Southern family recipes, but one of my favorites is a simple vinaigrette from my grandmother.

— Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 2 July 2026

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