Thesaurus results for TEXTS

texts

noun

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 In the series premiere of Netflix’s Vladimir, Rachel Weisz awakens from troubled sleep to a cascade of texts, sighs deeply, and addresses the camera with pleading eyes. — Judy Berman, Time, 8 July 2026 Prosecutors, pursuing a potential death sentence, say DNA on a towel and a rooftop surveillance video, plus a note and texts to Robinson’s roommate-partner, strongly link him to the shooting. — Hannah Schoenbaum, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026 The work is unfamiliar and seems risky, in precisely the ways advanced mathematics or learning to read complex texts may have seemed foreign to our agricultural-era counterparts. — Tim Knowles, Fortune, 8 July 2026 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 The torrent of emails and texts after a purchase is starting to feel kind of stalkerish. — Joanne Kaufman, Washington Post, 7 July 2026

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Noun

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

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To have a class project become a national program that is helping individuals with Down syndrome build real independence is the kind of real-world impact that goes beyond textbooks.

— Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 5 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 textbooks

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But while those other manuals for the mind became bestsellers, The Backpacker stayed on the margins.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 June 2026
OpenClaw will then interpret and complete the tasks automatically without the need to memorize complex commands or the need to resort to complicated reference manuals.

— Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026

Definition of manuals

Noun

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
Adopt a sensitive data detection platform that’s access-control-aware and lineage-savvy and extend it with custom dictionaries and RegEx patterns.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026

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