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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Recent Examples of text These weren't amateur attempts at gaming the system — they were carefully crafted prompt injections that demonstrated deep understanding of how AI systems process text and respond to instructions. Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 12 July 2025 Gemini will be able to answer questions, send texts, and interact with Samsung apps like Calendar, Clock, Health, and Reminder, providing a new hands-free way to interact with the watch. PC Magazine, 11 July 2025 If presidential interpretation can override constitutional text, if executive orders can redefine citizenship categories, what other rights become negotiable? Philippa Pham Hughes, Time, 11 July 2025 One last text sent to the islanders revealed that Williams and Carraway had the fewest votes, ultimately sending them home. Leia Mendoza, Variety, 11 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for text
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Noun
  • On the website, volunteer moderators share best practices for tapering, often referring to a handbook for doctors written by Horowitz, the British psychiatrist.
    Emily Corwin, NPR, 9 July 2025
  • Myers turned over the handbook after that, on June 25.
    Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
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  • And that setting of a vision and aligning people towards that vision—especially those who typically march to their own drum beat—is the textbook Harvard Business School definition of effective leadership.
    Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • Put it all together, and this year has been a textbook example of how a negative NIIP profile can magnify currency turmoil, Ford warned.
    Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • The 30 model features a chain drive with 11-speed manual Shimano Cues shifting.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 8 July 2025
  • This solution is trained on the department's reference materials, including manuals, guides, and other documents.
    Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • Being the kind of girl who used to read the introductions to dictionaries—and loves etymology enough to subscribe to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED)—I had to look it up.
    Renae Gregoire, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • The latest system of this kind supported a dictionary of roughly 1,300 words.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 29 June 2025

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