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Recent Examples of schoolbook
There is a naïve element to her spiral designs in birthday party colors, like doodles in a schoolbook.
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Leah Dolan, CNN, 4 Feb. 2025
As Jad spoke in schoolbook English, Fawzi listened and nodded or whispered corrections.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
The signs of Meta, Circle, and AI House, and the logo of the Mohammed bin Salman Foundation were being taken down from the fronts of the buildings, revealing a bakery, a massage parlor, a schoolbook shop, a hotel.
—Caitlín Doherty, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
Judging 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
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Leah Dolan, CNN, 4 Feb. 2025
As Jad spoke in schoolbook English, Fawzi listened and nodded or whispered corrections.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
The signs of Meta, Circle, and AI House, and the logo of the Mohammed bin Salman Foundation were being taken down from the fronts of the buildings, revealing a bakery, a massage parlor, a schoolbook shop, a hotel.
—Caitlín Doherty, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
Judging 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schoolbook
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For the Supreme Court to do so would require it to repudiate the Constitution’s text, the Court’s own precedents, and the enduring understanding of all three branches and of the American people.—
David Cole,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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The singer-songwriter also included a screenshot of a text from someone who appeared to be from his team.—
Charisma Madarang,
Rolling Stone,
3 Apr. 2026
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But today, their company Lehman Brothers — which catastrophically collapsed in bankruptcy in 2008 — is remembered as a textbook case for the pitfalls of unchecked greed, corruption and moral bankruptcy.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Mar. 2026
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Before the three scientists’ work, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans were largely abstract animals to most people – zoo exhibits, textbook illustrations, evolutionary symbols.—
Mireya Mayor,
The Conversation,
27 Mar. 2026
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The forthcoming guide, which education officials have described as a first step toward a more comprehensive handbook to be issued at a later date, is coming as families and teachers are deeply divided and anxious about the potential — and pitfalls — of the new technology.—
Cayla Bamberger,
New York Daily News,
23 Mar. 2026
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There's no universal handbook for buyers who want to stay on the right side of ethics.—
Shaun McKinnon,
AZCentral.com,
9 Mar. 2026
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Museum workers had assembled it from forty pieces with no instruction manual.—
Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
1 Apr. 2026
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This includes the device, a user manual, power cord, water inlet and drainage hoses, five urine test strips, an RFID reader, a box of washable litter, and litter detergent.—
Maryna Holovnova,
New Atlas,
30 Mar. 2026
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Here is a beginner’s dictionary for 10 terms and phrases as synonymous with the Masters as pimento cheese and peach ice cream.—
Jack Leo,
AJC.com,
3 Apr. 2026
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In the dictionary What comes at the end of Easter?—
Nellah Bailey McGough,
Southern Living,
2 Apr. 2026
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“Schoolbook.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolbook. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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