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 This is excellent energy for captions, pitches, texts, brainstorming, flirting, or turning a quick idea into something shareable. — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 13 Aug. 2026 Donors can further protect themselves by navigating directly to an organization's official website instead of clicking unexpected donation links in texts, emails or social media posts. — Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026 The Internet Archive, which helps libraries preserve aging collections, has long understood that scanning old texts takes time and attention to limit handling, and that’s why it’s considered such a human job. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2026 The real deals are locked in over late-night dinners, back-channel texts and quiet handshakes months in advance. — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2026 The sources of truth are scattered across emails, PDFs, calendars, booking systems, texts, spreadsheets, vendor portals and people’s heads. — Ishraq Khan, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 Because delivery information arrives through a health portal, be careful with unexpected texts or emails claiming to contain a tracking update. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 11 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
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
  • Whether students have textbooks, digital devices or both, they often are accompanied by notebooks, water bottles, lunch containers, workout clothes and more.
    — Cheyanne Mumphrey, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026
  • 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
Definition of textbooks
Noun
  • The building was still filled with bottling equipment and manuals for the machinery.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Combine those conversations with maintenance histories and equipment manuals, then organize the material into a searchable knowledge base.
    — Ethan Karp, Forbes.com, 6 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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