as in handbooks
a book used for instruction in a subject
one shelf in my bookcase is crammed full of my old college textbooks
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Recent Examples of textbooks
When instructing his students to open their textbooks to page 67, Dannenbring will suddenly adopt the timbre of his enthusiastic seventh graders, who immediately protest their teacher using a phrase that does not belong to him.
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Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
Isaac Elementary School District Seeks a $10 million bond for furniture, equipment, technology, software, textbooks and instructional aids.
—Erick Trevino, AZCentral.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Levasseur also mentioned professional development aiding in both ELA and math and the implementation of new textbooks that align with state math framework.
—Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 15 Oct. 2025
In a promotional video, the founder showed off an office chess set, beers brewed from lurid blue Yunnan mushrooms and a small library stocked with quantum mechanics textbooks.
—Lavender Au, The Dial, 7 Oct. 2025
One worked with a Muslim advocacy group contesting LGBTQ themes in school textbooks.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2025
In 1922, Thomas Edison declared that in the near future, all school textbooks would be replaced by film strips, because text was 2% efficient, but film was 100% efficient.
—Justin Reich, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
Her knowledge wasn’t handed down in textbooks or lectures.
—Ellie Goulding, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
Typically originating on a large canvas, the art often incorporates acrylic paint and graphics pulled from old textbooks and newspapers, emergency manuals, and junk-shop magazines.
—Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
Isaac Elementary School District Seeks a $10 million bond for furniture, equipment, technology, software, textbooks and instructional aids.
—Erick Trevino, AZCentral.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Levasseur also mentioned professional development aiding in both ELA and math and the implementation of new textbooks that align with state math framework.
—Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 15 Oct. 2025
In a promotional video, the founder showed off an office chess set, beers brewed from lurid blue Yunnan mushrooms and a small library stocked with quantum mechanics textbooks.
—Lavender Au, The Dial, 7 Oct. 2025
One worked with a Muslim advocacy group contesting LGBTQ themes in school textbooks.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2025
In 1922, Thomas Edison declared that in the near future, all school textbooks would be replaced by film strips, because text was 2% efficient, but film was 100% efficient.
—Justin Reich, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
Her knowledge wasn’t handed down in textbooks or lectures.
—Ellie Goulding, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
Typically originating on a large canvas, the art often incorporates acrylic paint and graphics pulled from old textbooks and newspapers, emergency manuals, and junk-shop magazines.
—Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for textbooks
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The first step is to review your company material—handbooks, trainings, core values, everything—and make sure your professional self is 100% aligned with company expectations.—
Sean WillChene,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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The end goal is to have the information that could eventually be included in international handbooks that serve as reference resources for licensing and safety analysis of nuclear systems.—
Abhishek Bhardwaj,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Sep. 2025
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It is surrounded by the story of the Design Center building in texts and images on the gallery walls.—
Michael James Rocha,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Oct. 2025
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The same goes for answering anyone’s e-mails or texts in a timely fashion.—
Lucinda Rosenfeld,
New Yorker,
25 Oct. 2025
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The mere sight of IKEA instruction manuals causes my eyes to glaze over, to say nothing of home COVID tests.—
Lucinda Rosenfeld,
New Yorker,
25 Oct. 2025
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That often shows up in piles of cookbooks, self-help manuals, and fitness gear.—
Kathy Barnes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
24 Oct. 2025
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Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia — fear of long words (The longest word found in major English dictionaries is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a 45-letter word describing a lung disease caused by inhaling fine silica dust.—
Scott Lafee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Oct. 2025
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For the first time in 20 years, the company that publishes reference books and is mostly known for its dictionaries, is releasing a brand new edition of its iconic Collegiate Dictionary.—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Textbooks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/textbooks. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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