user's manual

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It is one of football’s most mysterious, oft-criticized guides — a user’s manual for fourth-down daring, a mathematical reservoir for calculated risk.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 12, 2022

We now understood how the front display matched the description in the back-cover user’s manual, with the sun and planets shown by marker beads on concentric rings.

From Scientific American • Dec. 14, 2021

Perhaps it’s time to recognize the Constitution for what it is: a user’s manual for organizing a government.

From Washington Post • Feb. 21, 2018

Without breaking open a user's manual, a summary: Konopka plays bass and guitar patterns into his pedals, and then tries manually to set them to sync up with the material Williams has triggered in Ableton.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 25, 2015

References abound, from the Commodore 64 user’s manual to Roland Barthes’ S/Z. This is a book where Dungeons and Dragons and Abstract Expressionism get equal consideration.

From Slate • Nov. 30, 2012