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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Those texts would become key evidence in the case.
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Rebecca Laflam, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2025
Practices like mindfulness, yoga or studying different religious texts may resonate with you.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
Reading scales categorize texts by difficulty, allowing educators to match students with appropriate materials.
—Geoffrey Alphonso, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
For a stretch, Browns head trainer Joe Sheehan wasn’t working out with them, so Vrabel started bombarding him with playful texts and selfies with the staff, enough to shame Sheehan into eventually joining them.
—Zack Rosenblatt, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
What To Know In the two-minute, 13-second video, the reporter walks around Jabbar's home, after it had been raided by police, pointing out his possessions, including various chemicals laid across workstations and religious texts.
—James Bickerton, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
The multiple phone calls and texts would indicate so.
—Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2025
Rivera is now a peer coach at the company, answering texts from members seeking advice and helping with technical issues.
—April Fulton, NPR, 3 Jan. 2025
But Gina had taken screenshots of some of their texts.
—Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
Rebecca Laflam, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2025
Practices like mindfulness, yoga or studying different religious texts may resonate with you.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
Reading scales categorize texts by difficulty, allowing educators to match students with appropriate materials.
—Geoffrey Alphonso, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
For a stretch, Browns head trainer Joe Sheehan wasn’t working out with them, so Vrabel started bombarding him with playful texts and selfies with the staff, enough to shame Sheehan into eventually joining them.
—Zack Rosenblatt, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
What To Know In the two-minute, 13-second video, the reporter walks around Jabbar's home, after it had been raided by police, pointing out his possessions, including various chemicals laid across workstations and religious texts.
—James Bickerton, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
The multiple phone calls and texts would indicate so.
—Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2025
Rivera is now a peer coach at the company, answering texts from members seeking advice and helping with technical issues.
—April Fulton, NPR, 3 Jan. 2025
But Gina had taken screenshots of some of their texts.
—Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
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“Texts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/texts. Accessed 15 Mar. 2025.
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