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[hand-book] / ˈhændˌbʊk /


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Many of these principles are borrowed from the Premier League handbook of 2025-26.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

If I’m reading my wildflowers handbook right, these were tidy tips, Goldfields, Owl’s Clover, thistle sage, Valley Larkspur, coreopsis, phacelia and hillside daisies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

Participants were assigned to different family groups and used a government civil-defense handbook as a reference.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

"I don't have many friends who are friends with their exes, actually," says Olivia Petter, author of dating handbook Millenial Love.

From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2026

“Yes, Commander, we all know what the handbook says. But are you trying to tell me that you never sneaked a breath of air after a few hours in the sky?”

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

That includes First Choice’s handbooks for volunteers, training materials, and agreements such as the statements of faith that employees must uphold.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025

The lawyers invoked an array of dictionaries, grammar usage guides, statutory drafting manuals, and handbooks for reading law, one of which was co-authored by the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2023

The plaintiffs argued that the shutdowns denied them university experiences they expected, based on the schools’ marketing materials, websites, course catalogs, student handbooks and the like.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2023

Eventually we will meet Christopher Walken as Burt, head of Optics and Design, which hangs those paintings and creates the “handbook tote bags,” a sort of joke, since handbooks can’t be taken anywhere.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2022

There were application forms, twenty pages long, and thick, densely printed admission handbooks from Edinburgh and London whose methodical, exacting prose seemed to be a foretaste of a new kind of academic rigor.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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