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How to use the word textbook in a Sentence?

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Frankly, managing your interest rate risk exposure — that’s one of the first things that I teach an undergraduate banking class, it’s textbook stuff.

John Sedunov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The textbook in question in the infamous Scope's Monkey Trial was partially written by the Harvard educated white supremacist, Charles B. Davenport.

A.E. Samaan

added by AlvaroSiman
1 year ago

I don't think President Biden's textbook approach to correctly handling the discovery of misplaced documents will have any impact on his re-election if he decides to run, the difference between the two is apples and rotten oranges.

Brad Woodhouse

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

You'd show the legal defense fund doesn't exist. And you basically got a criminal case. It's a pretty textbook case of wire fraud, the more difficult thing is to attach this to Donald Trump.

Daniel Goldman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In the same way that Elizabeth Ramos wouldn't hand a calculus textbook to a kindergartner, but Elizabeth Ramos would teach them their numbers because otherwise when they get to high school, they're going to be really lost … likewise, Elizabeth Ramos know, Elizabeth Ramos give kids tools when they're very small to build the foundation that enables them to have the skills and the tools they need to engage more difficult or nuanced material as they age.

Sylvia Miller-Mutia

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Jessica was becoming a textbook Mean Girl. I was being slowly swallowed alive by my anxiety, and Jake was silently watching it all happen, which was maybe the most disconcerting of all our reactions, our family was falling apart, and the stress of falling apart was making us fall apart even faster.

Roseanne Barr

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As a Black woman in America, racism is absolutely inescapable. It shows up in all the little places and all the big places and all the places you don't expect. Sometimes it's in a textbook. Sometimes it's in a purse grabbed as I walk by, sometimes it's in a question about my hair, my skin, if anyone believes we have even come close to solving issues of racism and discrimination, they're mistaken. If I'm afraid to go for a run, go buy a snack, go to sleep in my own bed behind my own locked door, we aren't finished working yet.

Ashley Jones

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When the stories and histories of a people are excluded from a country's narrative it becomes so easy to overlook and even dehumanize an entire population, and while the inclusion of this history would go a long way with a diaspora as diverse and vast as ours, it can't just be a chapter in a textbook.

Lisa Ling

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is a textbook flight to quality into yen and the Swiss franc on the new virus strain with the thin liquidity also a factor which may accelerate the unwinding of short bond positions.

Kenneth Broux

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

If a theory and its proponents stubbornly refuse falsification by an ever increasing body of substantial conflicting evidence, the theory degenerates into a textbook example of dogmatic pseudo-science. The neo-Darwinian theory of macroevolution has failed on all fronts, from mathematical feasibility, to theoretical plausibility and explanatory power, to empirical support.

Günter Bechly

added by Normando
2 years ago

Education, Glenn Youngkin is almost a textbook case of someone who has taken a cultural issue, and arguably distorted it, that is the accusation and according to all of our fact-checking, you know, critical race theory is not taught in Virginia schools, it’s not a big deal, but it’s become, you know, a cause of outrage in so many school boards.

Andrea Mitchell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Israel today has employed two separate legal systems, one for the Palestinian Arabs and one for Israeli Jews, which is the textbook definition of apartheid, the word apartheid was taboo a few years ago. Today, it is no longer taboo.

Marwan Muasher

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's like a textbook for disease transmission, you're lining up, you're waiting for a long period, you're indoors, there may be poor ventilation... it doesn't make sense from a public health perspective.

Peter Chin-Hong

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We can not open a textbook -- neither on healthcare nor economy -- and find the right answer.

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The situation we are in is far more complicated than appreciating human life, we can not open a textbook -- neither on healthcare nor economy -- and find the right answer.

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

There is no textbook you can go buy. There is no self-help guide. You just sort of fumble your way through it, you're figuring it out every day.

Martin Charlton

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Its great, because it means were still making progress, eventually, somethings going to be in the textbook and the ball game is over. ... The fact that theres two competing ideas means that its exciting and vibrant. And now finally we have the experimental tools to resolve these issues.

Gerald Miller

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It looked like bad behavior... But it was a textbook example of a grieving child, i wasn't Mary RobinsonFor Robinson. I was Mary RobinsonFor Robinson.

Mary RobinsonFor Robinson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I think Jasprit Bumrah is very, very interesting. He runs off a very short run-up. He jogs and then bowls with a very short run. He has got straight arms. His bowling is not textbook by any means, but it works. He is very different from other pace bowlers, which reminds me of another fast bowler of my era, who was very different from everyone else

Jeff Thomson

added by anonymous
4 years ago

Tiffany is a textbook example of what is happening in retail, finally, they are catching up. They have missed opportunities in the past, but they understand that they have powerful brand and the brand was not expressed well in real life.

Thomai Serdari

Found on CNN
5 years ago

You could write a textbook on how they healed from trauma, they went to the scene and confronted what had happened. They paid their respects to her and apologized. And they honored her by trying to understand who she was.

Adam Makos

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Our study challenges the established notion of how the continents on which we live behave, it challenges the textbook concepts taught in introductory geology classes.

Professor Levin

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Such deceitful news is almost a textbook example ... so others should know that things like this are possible and they should prepare for them, there is now doubt that someone was preparing for such incidents and had various scenarios in place.

Raimondas Karoblis

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

This is as close to a textbook response as it could have been.

Eric Holcomb

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

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