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A conversation between multiple people that occurs via text message. How can I turn off the alerts for this annoying group text? My sisters and I chat in a group text all the time. One of my fellow retirees sent a group text about getting together for lunch, and now my phone won't stop dinging.

To adhere to or stay focused on the text that one is reading or referencing. I get so nervous when I do a presentation that I end up ad-libbing, rather than sticking to my text. My goal when adapting the novel into a film was to stick to the text as closely as possible.

The foundation, origin, or roots of something, especially an artistic work or cultural phenomenon; the original source or inspiration for many similar or related things that followed it. The term was originally applied to the earliest versions of scriptures, literary works, and musical compositions, but it is now used more broadly. I think "The Catcher in the Rye" can be seen as the urtext for the many novels about disillusioned teens that followed it. The urtext of the movement seems to be a speech he gave 10 years ago.