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textbook

[tekst-book] / ˈtɛkstˌbʊk /


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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

To lawyers and other advisers, the case reads like a textbook example of how that wealth can come back to bite, especially when founders and other business owners don’t take steps to protect their companies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

But, like many luxuries, as they became more popular and more accessible to the masses, the wealthy began pivoting – a textbook example of behaviour known as "counter signalling", Rudolfo says.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 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

He also 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. 30, 2026

They have a "huge bag" full of textbooks and workbooks recommended by teachers before they left and they are following the UK teaching curriculum.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

“Students who prefer physical textbooks should absolutely retain the option to purchase them, but students who cannot afford a printed book should have another way to access the materials they need to succeed,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The researchers' 2024 research concluded that textbooks had been describing this effect incorrectly for almost 100 years.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

They combed through medical textbooks that outlined the facial muscles, and they identified every distinct muscular movement that the face could make.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell


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