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textbook

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UK /ˈtekstbʊk/US /ˈtekstbʊk/
noun

a book that teaches a particular subject and that is used especially in schools and colleges

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and I asked them, 'What do you really think about the world?'—well, I first discovered that the textbook was Tintin, mainly, and they said, 'The world is still we and them.'

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