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textbook

[tekst-book] / ˈtɛkstˌbʊk /


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In the ashes there is a charred page from an English language textbook: "My name is William, I'm from the UK. My grandmother lives in Nottingham. It's a beautiful city."

From BBC Aug. 31, 2026

He is a longtime Harvard professor and author of a bestselling economics textbook.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 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

Texas Instruments teamed up with math educators and textbook publishers to create an ecosystem for teacher training programs and instruction materials that would seamlessly standardize TI across American classrooms.

From MarketWatch Aug. 18, 2026

Vanessa began thumbing through the book, which suddenly looked very much like a textbook.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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

He rushed back from a farmhouse holiday with friends, scrambling to retrieve the notes and textbooks he had already given to younger students in case he had to sit the exam again.

From BBC Aug. 2, 2026

In medical school, the first two years consisted mainly of lecture courses, but Farmer managed, with the blessing of the faculty, to make frequent visits to Haiti, taking his notes and textbooks with him.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French




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