texts

plural of text
as in handbooks
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 texts Flynn sent the texts just months before his wife Ashley, a beloved middle school volleyball coach, was fatally shot in the head inside their family’s suburban home in February, Watkins said. — Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2026 Eventually, their texts spilled over to their personal lives and families. — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2026 These responses, thepublisher has said, go far beyond the snippets of texts typically shown with ordinary search results. — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026 The result is a strange, bewitching experiment in autobiography, in which there are no friendships or love affairs, just exquisite digressions on life-changing texts. — Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026 Corroborating evidence can include photos, texts, police reports, hospital records and witnesses, all of which must be handled in a specific way. — Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026 The businesses that win with SMS won’t be the ones sending the most texts. — Phil Portman, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026 But Mark, in Ronson’s telling, quickly grows antagonistic, abruptly asking Ronson to sign an NDA, then later barraging him with suspicious texts and threatening him with a pair of goons. — Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2026 Barisone’s proposition was that everything that followed—months of living and working together, silly texts—was done in the shadow of that threat. — Ian Parker, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
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Noun
  • That may be the most consequential shift in knowledge management since physical handbooks became digital knowledge bases.
    — Chakkry Arunachalam, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2026
  • The company also publishes a garden guide, a kids’ edition, and special handbooks on container gardens, vegetables, and herbs.
    — HubSpot, HubSpot, 1 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The costs of college textbooks and supplies have remained steady while food and student housing have increased in recent years, according to federal data.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026
  • The teachers and students of the twentieth century also had textbooks.
    — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Braun writes that popular volumes included Bibles, farming and health manuals, biographies, and fiction.
    — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 18 Sep. 2026
  • The environmental groups also asked for copies of user manuals provided to EPA staff as well as predeployment monitoring records for the AI tools.
    — Story Hinckley, Christian Science Monitor, 15 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • From burritos to dictionaries, brands are already comparing a slew of foldable items to the new iPhone Duo.
    — Melina Khan, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Most dictionaries do not even list the meaning—’to kill’—that the government now proposes.
    — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 27 July 2026

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“Texts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/texts. Accessed 27 Sep. 2026.

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