handbook

A Strathclyde Police Standard Operating Procedures handbook for 2006 states: "The force should not recruit people with cautions or convictions, which may call into question the integrity of the applicant or the force."

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

Sometimes the most crucial parts of an office dress code aren’t written out in an employee handbook.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

“Bird by Bird,” her 1994 writing handbook, which has sold more than 1 million copies and continues to sell approximately 40,000 copies each year, became a meme before there were memes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026

I want to add that if comments about your appearance persist, you might want to consult your employee handbook and ask HR.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 28, 2026

I don’t know if there’s a how-to-go-on-a-first-date-without-making-a-total-fool-of-yourself handbook out there, but if there is I’m pretty sure fessing up to your weird Dolly Parton obsession is not on the do list.

From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy

That includes First Choice’s handbooks for volunteers, training materials, and agreements such as the statements of faith that employees must uphold.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025

The lawyers invoked an array of dictionaries, grammar usage guides, statutory drafting manuals, and handbooks for reading law, one of which was co-authored by the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2023

Taken up by the social-dance industry, it was codified, taught in handbooks and neighborhood studios — and, unlike its early years, slotted into the strictly gendered roles of traditional ballroom dancing.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2023

Eventually we will meet Christopher Walken as Burt, head of Optics and Design, which hangs those paintings and creates the “handbook tote bags,” a sort of joke, since handbooks can’t be taken anywhere.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2022

There were application forms, twenty pages long, and thick, densely printed admission handbooks from Edinburgh and London whose methodical, exacting prose seemed to be a foretaste of a new kind of academic rigor.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan