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• n  a book prepared for use in schools or colleges

• Crouched on a mat in a refugee camp on Sri Lanka's east coast, flicking the pages of a schoolbook, pencil by her side, she looks like a normal kid.
• Example: he called in a Little Rock city official, displayed a schoolbook with a square section of pages cut out ("Just right for hiding a gun"), and a few water pistols ("The .
• There he is, in the background of paintings, schoolbook illustrations, celebratory films.

• textbook
• text
• text edition
• school text

• trade_edition

News & Articles

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• The U.S. History Textbook That Has Gun-Rights Advocates Up in Arms
  Gun rights advocates and schoolbook-banning rabble rousers, two of the nation's most hysterical breeds of right-wing fire-breathers, have combined in a case over a U.S. history textbook in use at a Texas high school.        
  Sept. 18, 2013 - The Atlantic Wire

Quotes

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• Benjamin Rush in The Conservative Voice
  In 1791, Dr. Rush wrote a pamphlet titled, "A Defense of the Use of the Bible as a Schoolbook."