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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Reading words in legal texts divorced from fundamental moral values will not save us from tyranny.
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Jeannie Suk Gersen,
New Yorker,
2 July 2026
Investigators obtained a search warrant for her cellphone and found a text thread between the suspect and two other people.
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Harriet Ramos,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
2 July 2026
The number of people vulnerable to government-impersonation scams, in particular, is much higher, as anyone can be reached by phone or text, and quickly manipulated into thinking irrationally about how to avoid arrest, according to Brown.
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Ella Moore
july 2,
Miami Herald,
2 July 2026
Bonner shared screenshots with The Athletic’s Annie Costabile of texts, direct messages and social media comments that included racial slurs and death threats to her family – some of which included her home address.
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Brian Hamilton,
New York Times,
2 July 2026
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Jeannie Suk Gersen,
New Yorker,
2 July 2026
Investigators obtained a search warrant for her cellphone and found a text thread between the suspect and two other people.
—
Harriet Ramos,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
2 July 2026
The number of people vulnerable to government-impersonation scams, in particular, is much higher, as anyone can be reached by phone or text, and quickly manipulated into thinking irrationally about how to avoid arrest, according to Brown.
—
Ella Moore
july 2,
Miami Herald,
2 July 2026
Bonner shared screenshots with The Athletic’s Annie Costabile of texts, direct messages and social media comments that included racial slurs and death threats to her family – some of which included her home address.
—
Brian Hamilton,
New York Times,
2 July 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for text
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Now, 15 years later, the law continues to guide district handbooks across Oregon.
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Rules for e-bikes and other two-wheel vehicles are contained within the DMV’s California motorcycle handbook, but general traffic knowledge is not commonplace.
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Entomologists actually still use his textbook and it’s considered a bible of Filipino mosquitoes.
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In the afternoon, students will partake in book clubs that read novels — a dying art in traditional public schools, driven in part by the increasing popularity of literacy curriculum programs that favor textbooks with short reading passages over whole books.
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Smid then shifted his questioning to the definition of administrative leave provided in the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office’s general orders manual.
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Unlike simple query-response models, agentic workflows represent a move from manual prompting to a new era of delegating and empowering autonomy with agents that act on behalf of the business.
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Adopt a sensitive data detection platform that’s access-control-aware and lineage-savvy and extend it with custom dictionaries and RegEx patterns.
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The dictionary's selection came, in part, from fans' reactions to Swift and Kelce's engagement.
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“Text.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/text. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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