playbook
noun
play·book
ˈplā-ˌbu̇k 
1
: one or more plays in book form
2
: a notebook containing diagrammed football plays
3
: a stock of usual tactics or methods
straight from his opponent's political playbook
Examples of playbook in a Sentence
He studied the new plays in the team's playbook.
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But can this ambitious playbook deliver results in the sprawling bureaucracies of the public sector?
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Greg Orme, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
Mustangs backers responded by contributing more than $1 million to an early NIL effort, the start of a three-year building project that has turned SMU, once a college football pariah, into a paradigm of the modern playbook.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 10 Dec. 2024
The new Trump administration will likely look at what states have accomplished and use that as a playbook for what could be achieved legislatively at the federal level, Proctor says.
—Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 7 Dec. 2024
Copied Share Code breaker Andrew Greif NFL teams closely guard aspects of their playbook like nuclear codes.
—NBC News, 6 Dec. 2024
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Greg Orme, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
Mustangs backers responded by contributing more than $1 million to an early NIL effort, the start of a three-year building project that has turned SMU, once a college football pariah, into a paradigm of the modern playbook.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 10 Dec. 2024
The new Trump administration will likely look at what states have accomplished and use that as a playbook for what could be achieved legislatively at the federal level, Proctor says.
—Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 7 Dec. 2024
Copied Share Code breaker Andrew Greif NFL teams closely guard aspects of their playbook like nuclear codes.
—NBC News, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Playbook.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/playbook. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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