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 At one end are old-school flip phones, popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s, that handle calls and texts but little else. Maya Blackstone, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026 The app walks you through various permissions to access your texts, calendar, and phone before showing legal documents, including terms and conditions and the privacy policy. Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 5 Aug. 2026 Her texts are unpunctuated, uppercase, underlined for further emphasis. Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2026 The instinctive Moon in your 1st House of Self squares chatty Mercury in your 4th House of Home, so feelings could rush ahead in family talks, texts, or morning logistics. Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2026 Rabbitt said that planning for the deaths took place as far back as June 5, as Steadman and Myers, who lived in the same apartment building, had been allegedly conspiring through texts about their plot. Matt Foster, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026 Many scam texts use vague greetings, odd wording, awkward punctuation or slightly incorrect brand names. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 4 Aug. 2026 In the fall, after some texts were found by a parent, a group of students were outed to the school, according to two students who were enrolled at the time. Devna Bose, Charlotte Observer, 3 Aug. 2026 Kansans for Life, the state’s most influential antiabortion group, has spent at least $87,000 in a recent 11-day span on mailers and texts. John Hanna, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2026
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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
Noun
  • Students have saved nearly $60 million in textbooks, and now 46 degree programs have zero textbook costs along the way.
    Jared Polis, Denver Post, 30 July 2026
  • The mine wars were omitted from West Virginia school textbooks, replaced with a patriotic version of the coal industry’s history.
    Elijah TanAll, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026
Noun
  • House Bill 1512, which would require tech manufacturers to make digital repair manuals, parts and tools available to consumers and independent repair shops, passed in October 2025 and was referred to a committee in the Pennsylvania Senate.
    Joe Brandt, CBS News, 30 July 2026
  • But until those requirements are formally published and MCOs have updated their systems, provider manuals and contracting terms accordingly, providers face a fragmented reality.
    Valerie Cerra, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
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

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“Texts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/texts. Accessed 9 Aug. 2026.

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