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  • noun Plural form of handbook.

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Examples

  • "The handbooks are the same everywhere, but they're interpreted and handled differently by different locations."

    Cresco Times-Plain Dealer Homepage RSS 2010

  • Traditional social practices are not embodied in standard "handbooks" of best practice; instead, they are transmitted through networks of training and imitation.

    Technical practices Daniel Little 2009

  • Traditional social practices are not embodied in standard "handbooks" of best practice; instead, they are transmitted through networks of training and imitation.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Daniel Little 2009

  • Scientists need to publish, subscribe, syndicate (e.g. updates to handbooks), remix (e.g. taking ideas from different disciplines and pull them together to get new advances).

    2009 July 29 | Serendipity 2009

  • Scientists need to publish, subscribe, syndicate (e.g. updates to handbooks), remix (e.g. taking ideas from different disciplines and pull them together to get new advances).

    Liveblogging Science 2.0 | Serendipity 2009

  • Scientists need to publish, subscribe, syndicate (e.g. updates to handbooks), remix (e.g. taking ideas from different disciplines and pull them together to get new advances).

    2009 July | Serendipity 2009

  • If we allow gay/lesbian alliances in schools and include anti-discrimination and anti-bullying policies in student handbooks, we can really reduce suicide attempts.

    Support may help curb suicide among gay youths 2011

  • He comparison-shopped dog toys, leashes and handbooks.

    Stinson Carter: Brother's Bite-- When Sibling Rivalry Is Man Versus Dog Stinson Carter 2011

  • Teach-yourself-English phrasebooks nestled among handbooks of archaic tongues like PASCAL and BASIC and COBAL; and, for reasons I never divined, copy after yellowing copy of The Journal of Heat Transfer.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • The involvement with Age Concern started when I was asked to write a series of handbooks for carers.

    Marina Lewycka - live webchat - 8th July, 2009 2009

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