as in manuals
a book used for instruction in a subject
a handbook of grammar
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Recent Examples of handbooks
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.
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Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2025
That one line says more about age inclusion than most corporate handbooks.
—Shelley Zalis, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
As the new school year begins, parents will be bombarded with schedules, handbooks and those oh so important pick-up line instructions.
—James V. Shuls, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2025
Many of the government’s civil defense handbooks are available through the Internet Archive.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Aug. 2025
Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2025
That one line says more about age inclusion than most corporate handbooks.
—Shelley Zalis, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
As the new school year begins, parents will be bombarded with schedules, handbooks and those oh so important pick-up line instructions.
—James V. Shuls, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2025
Many of the government’s civil defense handbooks are available through the Internet Archive.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for handbooks
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The Berg Family Library on site at the museum also includes an extensive collection of automotive research, from books and magazines to thousands of repair manuals, to ensure no knowledge is lost to time.—
Karen Billing,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Sep. 2025
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These manuals explain how to use all the products effectively.—
Olivia Young,
Travel + Leisure,
2 Sep. 2025
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The same tactics are being applied to phishing emails and texts sent to everyday users.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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The investigation eventually revealed that Lauryn's mom, Kendra Licari, was the person who had been sending up to 50 cruel texts a day to her then-13-year-old daughter and her daughter's ex-boyfriend for two years.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
12 Sep. 2025
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In March 2015, Center informed the student’s father that U-Texas would be sending the student a letter of intent for a ‘books’ scholarship, which provides funding for a student’s textbooks, as part of the athletic recruitment process.—
Gary Bedore,
Kansas City Star,
17 Sep. 2025
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These vortical tricks do more than rewrite ornithology textbooks.—
John Drake,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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At a time when contentious words dominate our conversations—think insurrection and fascism and fake news and woke—the need for dictionaries to chronicle and explain language, and serve as its watchdog, has never been greater.—
Stefan Fatsis,
The Atlantic,
13 Sep. 2025
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Transcripts, grammars, vocabularies, dictionaries, glyph studies, botanical studies, commentaries, articles, editions of codices, correspondence, maps, charts, drawings, photographs, Maya Society materials, genealogies of Maya families, and Mayan glyphs on moveable type.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Handbooks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/handbooks. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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