as in handbooks
a book used for instruction in a subject
one shelf in my bookcase is crammed full of my old college textbooks
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Recent Examples of textbooks
Her knowledge wasn’t handed down in textbooks or lectures.
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Ellie Goulding, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
Typically originating on a large canvas, the art often incorporates acrylic paint and graphics pulled from old textbooks and newspapers, emergency manuals, and junk-shop magazines.
—Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2025
No one has textbooks; backpacks are a rarity.
—Ghada Abdulfattah, The Atlantic, 23 Sep. 2025
Say goodbye to standardized testing, and textbooks.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
This fallacy is repeated in innumerable geography textbooks, as well as travel articles and guides.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 19 Sep. 2025
In March 2015, Center informed the student’s father that U-Texas would be sending the student a letter of intent for a ‘books’ scholarship, which provides funding for a student’s textbooks, as part of the athletic recruitment process.
—Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 17 Sep. 2025
These vortical tricks do more than rewrite ornithology textbooks.
—John Drake, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
The future of hospitality education isn’t found in textbooks.
—Dr. Michael Cheng, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
Ellie Goulding, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
Typically originating on a large canvas, the art often incorporates acrylic paint and graphics pulled from old textbooks and newspapers, emergency manuals, and junk-shop magazines.
—Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2025
No one has textbooks; backpacks are a rarity.
—Ghada Abdulfattah, The Atlantic, 23 Sep. 2025
Say goodbye to standardized testing, and textbooks.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
This fallacy is repeated in innumerable geography textbooks, as well as travel articles and guides.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 19 Sep. 2025
In March 2015, Center informed the student’s father that U-Texas would be sending the student a letter of intent for a ‘books’ scholarship, which provides funding for a student’s textbooks, as part of the athletic recruitment process.
—Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 17 Sep. 2025
These vortical tricks do more than rewrite ornithology textbooks.
—John Drake, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
The future of hospitality education isn’t found in textbooks.
—Dr. Michael Cheng, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for textbooks
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The first step is to review your company material—handbooks, trainings, core values, everything—and make sure your professional self is 100% aligned with company expectations.—
Sean WillChene,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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The end goal is to have the information that could eventually be included in international handbooks that serve as reference resources for licensing and safety analysis of nuclear systems.—
Abhishek Bhardwaj,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Sep. 2025
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Both sides may have reasons to cut a deal before pretrial discovery compels Goodell, Gruden and others to testify under oath and share sensitive emails, texts and other documents.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Swift will, however, have to submit her texts with Lively to the court.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
3 Oct. 2025
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Where rookie pilots panicked in battle, Gabreski functioned like a robot, dispassionately following the instructions laid out in his military flight manuals.—
Angus Fletcher,
Big Think,
29 Sep. 2025
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Paper, cardboard boxes, and manuals.—
Patricia Shannon,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 Sep. 2025
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For the first time in 20 years, the company that publishes reference books and is mostly known for its dictionaries, is releasing a brand new edition of its iconic Collegiate Dictionary.—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
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Anyway, in numerous cases in this volume, being aware of dictionaries in other languages has left a mark on lexicographers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Textbooks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/textbooks. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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