textbook
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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
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
That smooth recovery is considered a textbook "second-order" phase transition.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
In building a work culture, for instance, “there’s no textbook right answer. It’s not a super comforting feeling.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
One book, Famous Short Stories of England and America, which we had used as a textbook in high-school English.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
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 possibility that gluons carry baryon number would overturn the standard simplified description found in many textbooks.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
Kahaan wasn't the sort of teenager consumed only by textbooks.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
His school and Quidditch robes, cauldron, parchment, quills, and most of his textbooks were piled in a corner, to be left behind.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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Reading: Informational - Middle School
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