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 Miles says similar texts were sent to others about the recall, and that the texts constitute quid pro quo, a major ethics violation. — Olivia Young, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026 Mick Night, of Premier Sotheby’s International Realty, has consulted for about a year with the Gilmers on selling the property and did not return emails, calls or texts seeking comment. — Brian Bell, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2026 Days later, the family started receiving suspicious texts from her phone asking for money. — Darla Miles, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026 My dog will create a TikTok account and go viral for a post about me not answering her texts, and then will go live to announce that my husband has replaced me as her favorite person. — Meg Reid, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2026 Why Amazon job scam texts keep changing Scammers can keep a successful pitch alive by making small adjustments. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2026 Emails, texts and calls flood in from other college classmates, all rallying Papa against B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia and its brutal aftermath, including a months-long hospital stay that required a ventilator. — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2026 His account reveals a sacred landscape that borrows descriptions from and echoes the ethos of sacred Sanskrit texts. — Aishwarya Lakshmi, The Conversation, 18 Aug. 2026 The Moon conjoins Venus in Libra and your 3rd House of Communication, softening texts, calls, errands, sibling dynamics, and local conversations. — Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for texts
  1. handbooks
  2. textbooks
  3. manuals
  4. dictionaries
Noun
  • Bureaucracy Feels More Powerful Than People ‘Severance’ showcases a workplace dominated by rules, handbooks, procedures, approval chains, and layers of management.
    — Kate Wieczorek, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • School handbooks may also provide information on whether a school serves all students or may exclude some groups, like those with disabilities or LGBTQ+ parents from admissions.
    — Mollie Simon, ProPublica, 16 July 2026
Definition of handbooks
Noun
  • College makes money tight between tuition, textbooks and other school expenses.
    — Amaia Gavica, Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2026
  • But what troubles him most is not only what has disappeared from textbooks.
    — Fatima Faizi, NPR, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of textbooks
Noun
  • The return of a manual Carrera S also means that 911 buyers now have seven manuals to choose from starting in 2027.
    — Bryan Campbell, Robb Report, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The building was still filled with bottling equipment and manuals for the machinery.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of manuals
Noun
  • Most dictionaries do not even list the meaning—’to kill’—that the government now proposes.
    — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 27 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
Definition of dictionaries

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