as in handbook
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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Liska and Copper’s text also, uncomfortably, makes constant, slighting reference to Bachrach’s body.
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Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
Call, text or visit the restaurant's Facebook page, facebook.com/mexiq2018, for more information.
—Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 13 Dec. 2024
According to the on-screen text, Ella is a huge fan who has a collection of memorabilia, courtesy of her owner Emily Beck.
—Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
Other family members did not return calls or texts.
—Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2024
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Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
Call, text or visit the restaurant's Facebook page, facebook.com/mexiq2018, for more information.
—Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 13 Dec. 2024
According to the on-screen text, Ella is a huge fan who has a collection of memorabilia, courtesy of her owner Emily Beck.
—Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
Other family members did not return calls or texts.
—Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2024
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Sunset anxiety does not appear in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), the handbook used by mental health providers to identify and diagnose mental health conditions.Korin Miller, Verywell Health, 14 Dec. 2024
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There’s nothing in any NFL handbook that would suggest coaching upheaval is a good thing for a rookie franchise quarterback.Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 8 Dec. 2024
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She was inspired by a character of the same name, a schoolgirl with pigtails, who appeared on the covers of Korean textbooks in the ’70s and ’80s.Radhika Seth, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2024
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Fifty years later, in 1971, the Chicago Tribune documented how Menominee mother and activist Carol Warrington was jailed after pulling her children out of school in protest of the inaccurate and harmful depictions of Native people in their school textbooks.TIME, TIME, 25 Nov. 2024
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Without a protocol manual and a strong team to implement it, scalability is guesswork.Teja Chekuri, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
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It’s recommended by many experts and most likely is suggested in the user manual, too.Barbara Bellesi Zito, Southern Living, 29 Nov. 2024
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Smithsonian Archives Before Pantone turned its color standard into a big business, some of the first modern color systems came from naturalists trying to identify and differentiate bird species or flowers in reference works known as color dictionaries.Emma Bowman, NPR, 5 Dec. 2024
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The most beautiful word in the dictionary is tariff.CBS News, CBS News, 24 Nov. 2024
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“Text.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/text. Accessed 19 Dec. 2024.
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