as in manual
a book used for instruction in a subject
a handbook of grammar
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Recent Examples of handbook
While Trump has distanced himself from the handbook, Project 2025 has ties to Trump and his campaign.
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Chantelle Lee, TIME, 23 Oct. 2024
The complaint said the school’s AI policy was added to the Hingham High School student handbook only the year after the plaintiff’s son was punished.
—Kat Tenbarge, NBC News, 16 Oct. 2024
There is debate about how many human fatalities this octopus has caused, but the consensus in one handbook on venomous marine animals published in 1996 was that at least eleven had succumbed at the time.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
Gleason promoted his plan by publishing a handbook and obsessively mounting unauthorized, homemade street signs made from 5-gallon metal paint-can lids on traffic poles near intersections.
—Douglas C. Towne, The Arizona Republic, 5 Oct. 2024
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Chantelle Lee, TIME, 23 Oct. 2024
The complaint said the school’s AI policy was added to the Hingham High School student handbook only the year after the plaintiff’s son was punished.
—Kat Tenbarge, NBC News, 16 Oct. 2024
There is debate about how many human fatalities this octopus has caused, but the consensus in one handbook on venomous marine animals published in 1996 was that at least eleven had succumbed at the time.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
Gleason promoted his plan by publishing a handbook and obsessively mounting unauthorized, homemade street signs made from 5-gallon metal paint-can lids on traffic poles near intersections.
—Douglas C. Towne, The Arizona Republic, 5 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for handbook
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Many of the manuals reflect this and recommend distributing infostealers via other social media sites or point to GitHub as an effective trafficking method.Joseph Cox, WIRED, 4 Nov. 2024
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Developing cutting-edge AI today is still a manual, handcrafted human activity.Rob Toews, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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During his first term, Ta advocated for cities to have easier access to existing affordable housing funds to help build and run regional homeless shelters and prevention programs, halting gas tax increases and placing the landmark civil rights case Mendez v. Westminster in California textbooks.Hanna Kang, Orange County Register, 5 Nov. 2024
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Belichick signed her Deductive Logic textbook at the time and their first meeting was captured in a selfie, dug up by TMZ Sports.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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Although college students seem to be the most targeted with the texts, Black people of varying ages have reported receiving the messages.Char Adams, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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The tool can modify sentences or longer sections of text to shorten or lengthen the word count, change the tone, or format it in a different way.Kate Irwin, PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
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In their hands, the dictionary was a form of political speech, the only kind that ever worked for them.Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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Spanish/English dictionaries were delivered to some of the schools.Deb Harvell, arkansasonline.com, 27 Oct. 2024
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“Handbook.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/handbook. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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