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Apple’s CEO succession plan is a textbook case of standard corporate protocol, according to organizational experts.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
Chelsea McGillivray suffered an unknown cardiac event during labour last Monday after what was believed to be a textbook pregnancy.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
A textbook from the latter warned rescuers not to “rush to the aid of a person in trouble” but first to “stop, look around, and assess the risk to yourself and your team.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 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
The illustration accompanying the late-thirteenth-century Theodoric of Freiberg’s study of the rainbow when it appeared in print in Trutfetter’s textbook of 1514.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Eight million books were destroyed in the blaze that followed, including 600,000 school textbooks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 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
Kahaan wasn't the sort of teenager consumed only by textbooks.
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
Hamilton wrote several textbooks and was regarded as an expert in his field.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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