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 Throughout the episode, Luke texts Joy words of encouragement and romantically announces that a plate of vegetables at a restaurant reminded him of her. — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2026 To Kinder, who has exchanged late-night texts with other moms losing sleep to worry, the need for guardrails is clear. — Brittany Shammas, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2026 Watch for fake CenterPoint calls, texts and emails The immediate threat may not come from someone opening an account in your name. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 25 Sep. 2026 Unsolicited calls, texts or emails can be reported to the FTC's Fraud Prevention Division. — Dan Avery, CNBC, 22 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
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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
  • Artists, activists, lawyers, and teachers, these women laid the foundation for the period we are taught about in textbooks.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Housing, food, transportation, textbooks and childcare can determine whether a student stays enrolled.
    — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 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 4 Oct. 2026.

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