user's manual

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It is one of football’s most mysterious, oft-criticized guides — a user’s manual for fourth-down daring, a mathematical reservoir for calculated risk.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 12, 2022

We now understood how the front display matched the description in the back-cover user’s manual, with the sun and planets shown by marker beads on concentric rings.

From Scientific American • Dec. 14, 2021

Without breaking open a user's manual, a summary: Konopka plays bass and guitar patterns into his pedals, and then tries manually to set them to sync up with the material Williams has triggered in Ableton.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 25, 2015

It might also be the succinct user’s manual for this meandering, deliberate and tearless — yet oddly moving — western vehicle, which is both slow and, as gunslinger movies tend to be, action packed.

From Washington Post • May 20, 2015

Wozniack's high-powered, 20-button remote, released in 1987 with a thick user's manual and its own programming language, was far too complicated for the mainstream consumer.

From Slate • Jun. 27, 2012