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Recent Examples of schoolbookAmong the items tested were Mary Kay's schoolbooks, found stacked at the scene.—
Natalie Morales,
CBS News,
15 Feb. 2026 Car dashboards with controls that only appear when they're needed, schoolbooks and maps that physically animate concepts.—New Atlas,
15 Dec. 2025 In crude mines across Central and Sub-Saharan Africa, hands that should hold pencils and schoolbooks hammer rocks and search for the minerals that power electric vehicle batteries, solar cells, and wind turbines.—
Xanthe Scharff,
Time,
22 Sep. 2025 After Moscow launched a war against Ukraine, broke with the West, and pivoted toward non-Western audiences, Putin firmly embraced civilizational discourse, which is now official policy and a mainstay of presidential speeches and even schoolbooks.—Foreign Affairs,
19 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for schoolbook
Our simplified treatment programs work, and are 20% cheaper than the standard treatment mechanisms; but manual, error-prone data collection holds them back.
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Jeannie Annan,
Fortune,
2 Oct. 2026
Under normal conditions, the cockpit door on the plane, a Boeing 737 Max 8, uses a dead bolt that can be locked from the cockpit side, according to a 2025 Boeing manual for flight attendants.
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Latoya Gayle,
PEOPLE,
20 Sep. 2026
The famed dictionary added 1,400 new words to its dictionary on Wednesday, many focused on internet-first phases and trends.