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Recent Examples of schoolbookJudging from contemporary catalogs and advertisements, booksellers saw the text not as a mathematical treatise or schoolbook, but rather a piece of popular literature worthy of mass attention.—James Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024 The schoolbooks and sandals were among hundreds of items that belonged to Afghans who died in the many conflicts that have roiled the country.—Ruchi Kumar, NPR, 10 Dec. 2024 Meanwhile, fans, mostly teenage girls (some carrying their schoolbooks), crowd the barriers at the Plaza Hotel, penetrate its halls, press their faces to the windows of the limousine carrying the band to the Sullivan show, and chase it down the street.—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2024 In the past year, schoolbook chapters on the Mughal period have been pared down or removed altogether.—Byvaishnavi Chandrashekhar, science.org, 5 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for schoolbook
Images of the orb show a silver-colored sphere about the size of a bowling ball covered in what appears to be foreign text and drawings.
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Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 May 2025
The father of two had told the boy’s mother via text that the child hurt himself while riding his bike, the L.A. County district attorney’s office said in a May 2023 statement.
Jacques Bailly took a razor blade to the dictionary in 1991, revolutionizing the mechanics of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
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Elizabeth Hernandez,
Denver Post,
26 May 2025
Idaho’s state statute doesn’t define what a flag is, according to Ada County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Lauren Montague, who said the office was relying on the Oxford dictionary definition.
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Carolyn Komatsoulis,
Idaho Statesman,
14 May 2025
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