Thesaurus results for TEXTS

texts

noun

plural of text

as in handbooks

a book used for instruction in a subject the school's science curriculum suffers from a serious lack of up-to-date texts

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Recent Examples of texts Escola is pulling from Muppet ephemera as much as the main filmic texts. — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2026 The pro-wealth-tax campaign is sending voters emails and texts and has an online presence. — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026 To purchase Moorish texts, for example, his great-grandfather traveled all the way from the isolated Mauritanian desert city of Chinguetti to Andalusia, an autonomous community in southern Spain. — Kang-Chun Cheng, Christian Science Monitor, 24 Oct. 2026 In January 2019, Jon Ossoff’s cellphone lit up with a frenzy of calls and texts. — Ian Ward, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2026 Since the news about Christina Applegate’s multiple sclerosis misdiagnosis was released, texts from friends in disbelief have been popping up on my phone. — Lindsay Karp, STAT, 23 Oct. 2026 Alex Alvarado’s political action committee is behind the texts slamming Rodriguez in an apparent effort to help Republican Attorney General James Uthmeier stay in office. — Annie Martin, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026 The advisory also raises concerns about private communications, warning Americans that emails, texts and social media activity could be monitored by Chinese authorities. — Kelly McGreal, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026 Pangram ran an internal study using a database of non-native English texts and self-reported that false positive rate was around 8 in 10,000. — T.m. Brown, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2026

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The standard fix fails because handbooks rot the day they are written.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 15 Oct. 2026
In Arkansas, private schools participating in the voucher-like program have to be accredited or working toward it, which often requires creating curriculum and school handbooks.

— Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of handbooks

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In 2013, Pearson graduated as valedictorian of Mitchell High School, after leading protests at the school to demand textbooks for students.

— Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2026
Foyles Educational supplied textbooks and prizes to schools, and the library department provided a similar service for public libraries.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of textbooks

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With the exception of gambling disorder, behavioral addictions have received slim recognition in psychiatry’s diagnostic manuals—although doctors and researchers often still treat them as legitimate and potentially devastating disorders.

— Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
The team also read research studies about Georgia’s early childcare system and the state’s own policy and rule manuals.

— Justin Price, AJC.com, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of manuals

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Several dictionaries also partake in the annual tradition of choosing a single word to represent the cultural moment.

— New York Times, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2026
Performed by legends Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, the silly song is a tongue-twister for kiddos, and the titular word, which means ‘extraordinarily good, wonderful’ even made its way into some real deal dictionaries.

— Stephanie Ganz Published, Parents, 18 Oct. 2026

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