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Rather than providing the usual textbook answer, he instead gave a colourfully uncomplimentary – and unprintable - description of his own first-half performance.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
"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
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
In a textbook example of this principle, the Fed hiked interest rates more than 5 percentage points over 2022 and 2023 in response to rising inflation.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
Before leaving New York, I enrolled in a monthlong French class taught by a beautiful young Parisian woman who had us memorize a series of dialogues from an audiocassette that accompanied our textbook.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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His daughter, Katie Niederhoffer, said that until the last days of his life, she kept him stocked with books, everything from textbooks and biographies to books on trees and resilience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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
The idea became highly influential in evolutionary biology and eventually appeared widely in biology textbooks.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 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
The name was printed on the front of one of Harry’s textbooks, though admittedly not one of the ones he had read most attentively.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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