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textbook

[tekst-book] / ˈtɛkstˌbʊk /


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Janson, the author of the “History of Art” textbook, first published in 1962, implied that the regionalist painter was unworthy of scholarly attention.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Giancarlo: On my new book, I think readers are going to enjoy it because it’s not meant to be a textbook on crypto.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

"As a result, they've become textbook examples of convergent evolution, which can tell us a lot about the processes driving and constraining adaptive change in response to similar environmental cues."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

The data-center conflict is a textbook public-goods problem, in which AI users have an incentive to free-ride.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

I tried to remember the last time I’d read a textbook.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

Priorities: Payne wants to make community colleges “cheaper, faster, better” in part by offering students more training for specific jobs and less expensive online textbooks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

"Vulvalippen" has not yet been adopted by a German dictionary, but Windmüller has spotted it in conversations, school textbooks and women's magazines.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

For decades, organic chemistry textbooks have generally taught that the influence of certain atoms can travel through three or four bonds within a molecule.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

Eight million books were destroyed in the blaze that followed, including 600,000 school textbooks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

The school gave me the textbooks I need, but Mom and I had to go out to get pencils, pens, binders, and paper ourselves.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy


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