How to Use playbook in a Sentence

playbook

noun
  • He studied the new plays in the team's playbook.
  • But Democrats have said the playbook is not so cut and dry.
    Ella Lee, The Hill, 1 Nov. 2024
  • For the rest of the game, the IU playbook subtly shifted.
    The Indianapolis Star, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The playbook is the same for Malaysia's grand old party.
    Eileen Ng, ajc, 10 Nov. 2022
  • In many ways, a16z created the playbook for the boom times in tech.
    Jeremy Anderberg, Longreads, 9 May 2023
  • There is no playbook for the worst moments in your life.
    Ximena N. Beltran Quan Kiu, CNN, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The playbook from recent years hasn’t been tossed aside.
    David Moore, Dallas News, 26 May 2023
  • The playbook, going to school all the time, all that came natural to me.
    Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Mack is smitten and wants to shelve her playbook for good.
    Courtney Howard, Variety, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Read my full story on the metaverse at work here and see the full Fortune@Work playbook here.
    Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Learning the playbook — team chemistry was a big thing for me.
    Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • And then 40 years later, that playbook sort of remained the same.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Throw out the playbook Mike Elias has been following the last five years.
    Matt Weyrich, Baltimore Sun, 27 July 2024
  • The double-wing, then, was merely a part of their goal-line playbook.
    Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2022
  • But Fain insists the union will not follow that playbook this time.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 14 Sep. 2023
  • And if not, what does Maduro hope to gain by returning to an old playbook?
    Stefano Pozzebon, CNN, 12 Oct. 2024
  • But, the wide-leg pants and relaxed fit of the sweatshirt look straight out of the Gen Z influencer playbook.
    Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 25 Feb. 2024
  • There were plenty of black athletes who knew how to call a playbook.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Head coach Kalani Sitake said Heimuli learned the playbook faster than some players who’d been in the program for years.
    Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The leadership playbook that got us through 2024 won’t be enough for what lies ahead.
    Cynthia Pong, Jd, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
  • That you must be wracked with sobbing grief is from the Everyone Lives the Same Life playbook.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
  • He's been able to weight train and jump right into the playbook in January.
    Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 5 June 2023
  • Eberflus talked about a 24-hour rule — and that’s in every coach’s playbook.
    Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Like everyone else on the team, Kinchens has been busy learning the team’s new playbooks.
    Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The playbook for prevention is simple: Reduce the number of hits to the head, and reduce the strength of those hits.
    Celia Ford, WIRED, 12 Sep. 2023
  • When other touring moms caught wind of her wins, she was asked her to write a playbook.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 17 Nov. 2022
  • After trailing by 14, the Wolves took a page out of Salesian’s playbook and forced some turnovers.
    Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Imagine being in a crisis at 2 a.m. and needing to choose the right playbook.
    Mehdi Daoudi, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Dara has gone back to an old trick in Uber’s playbook: cutting driver pay.
    Len Sherman, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Bringing Musk’s cost-cutting playbook to the government is part of the agenda.
    Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024

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