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"This is a textbook example of a so-called driven-dissipative system that continuously receives energy and simultaneously loses it to the environment," says the researcher.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
The company’s relationships with teachers and textbook publishers are a key advantage, he added.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Pearson says Colossus I, the name of SpaceXAI boss Elon Musk's first mega AI supercomputer facility is "a textbook case of what it looks like when elected officials make promises about economic mobility."
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Paula Radcliffe, the former women's marathon world record holder, described it as "a textbook example of how not to run in your comeback race".
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
His textbook was first printed in 1472 and went through more than two hundred editions.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Barton and his son Tim supplied evidence from Barton’s archive showing the Ten Commandments in early textbooks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Some say customers aren’t exactly paying for innovation, but rather for decades of familiarity on the educator side — along with textbooks that build the calculators into their curricula.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
There is no oak panelling, no green leather-bound legal textbooks like the courtrooms you see on TV dramas.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
Throughout college, packs of instant ramen and cup noodles provided sustenance for long nights spent with the textbooks.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
“And it’s weird, Mama, cuz we don’t have all that much funding this year, and they’re cutting programs and some of the teachers are handing out copies of textbooks because we don’t have enough. Look!”
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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