schoolbook

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Recent Examples of schoolbook 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 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
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Noun
  • Related: Supreme Court to decide if challenge to Illinois' grace period for mail-in ballots can proceed Pennsylvania Democrats countered that the 2024 ruling by the state supreme court was consistent with the text of state election law and with the intent of the legislators who set the rules.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 7 June 2025
  • Independent creators and established filmmakers alike now have access to powerful AI tools such as Runway that can generate realistic video scenes, animate storyboards, and even produce entire short films from simple text prompts or reference images.
    Craig S. Smith, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
Noun
  • The past 12 months – with Musk marrying himself to the polarizing Trump brand and then breaking up with him – look like a textbook example of what a CEO should not do, especially a consumer-facing CEO.
    Matt Egan, CNN Money, 6 June 2025
  • Moo's hilarious response to being told off is a textbook example of this temperament.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • Finding Japanese investments in a handbook Buffett first unveiled investments in five Japanese trading companies on his 90th birthday in August 2020.
    Yun Li, CNBC, 26 May 2025
  • His firm has placed a handbook on the front page of their website to help federal employees better align their resumes with county level positions.
    Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • The Joy of Cooking Everyone should have a cookbook like this, a doorstop that is almost more encyclopedia than manual.
    Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 7 June 2025
  • Before starting a fire outdoors, make sure to review your fire pit's safety manual and extinguishing practices.
    Bailey Berg, Architectural Digest, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • Jacques Bailly took a razor blade to the dictionary in 1991, revolutionizing the mechanics of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
    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.
    Carolyn Komatsoulis, Idaho Statesman, 14 May 2025

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“Schoolbook.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolbook. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.

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