reference book

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The landmark legal reference book he edits, Black’s Law Dictionary, is as much a fixture of American courts as black robes, rosewood gavels and brass scales of justice.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025

Instead of becoming “a full-throated rebuke” to the internet-driven decline of the reference book, the project sputtered to a halt.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025

"Conversation over the supper table was always lively, our mother Mary very much held her own meanwhile David was ready with a reference book to look up something that was being disputed."

From BBC • Jan. 3, 2025

Excited delirium is not listed in the standard reference book of mental health conditions, nor does it have its own diagnostic code under a system used by health professionals to identify diseases and disorders.

From Scientific American • Oct. 16, 2023

The book was so thick and hefty that I knew it was a reference book of some kind, a text, maybe even an encyclopedia.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly