textbook
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The textbook response to a supply shock is to look through it on the theory that it passes before higher rates take effect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
A chemistry concept taught to generations of students may need to be explained very differently, according to an international team of researchers who say a long-accepted textbook description does not match modern evidence.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
Apple’s CEO succession plan is a textbook case of standard corporate protocol, according to organizational experts.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
Chelsea McGillivray suffered an unknown cardiac event during labour last Monday after what was believed to be a textbook pregnancy.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
In our time, Phineas Gage is a textbook case.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
"We realized that the discrepancy between modern computational data and textbooks was larger than we had anticipated."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
Barton and his son Tim supplied evidence from Barton’s archive showing the Ten Commandments in early textbooks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Some say customers aren’t exactly paying for innovation, but rather for decades of familiarity on the educator side — along with textbooks that build the calculators into their curricula.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
He rushed back from a farmhouse holiday with friends, scrambling to retrieve the notes and textbooks he had already given to younger students in case he had to sit the exam again.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
His school and Quidditch robes, cauldron, parchment, quills, and most of his textbooks were piled in a corner, to be left behind.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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