How to Use playbook in a Sentence
playbook
noun- He studied the new plays in the team's playbook.
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But Democrats have said the playbook is not so cut and dry.
—Ella Lee, The Hill, 1 Nov. 2024
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Reid’s use of a deep playbook helped the Chiefs make it to the Super Bowl.
—David Hill, Rolling Stone, 6 Feb. 2025
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For the rest of the game, the IU playbook subtly shifted.
—The Indianapolis Star, 27 Nov. 2022
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And if that doesn't sell you, the vest-as-a-top look is straight out of the Jane Birkin playbook.
—Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 20 June 2022
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The playbook is the same for Malaysia's grand old party.
—Eileen Ng, ajc, 10 Nov. 2022
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In many ways, a16z created the playbook for the boom times in tech.
—Jeremy Anderberg, Longreads, 9 May 2023
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There is no playbook for the worst moments in your life.
—Ximena N. Beltran Quan Kiu, CNN, 18 Jan. 2023
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The playbook from recent years hasn’t been tossed aside.
—David Moore, Dallas News, 26 May 2023
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The playbook, going to school all the time, all that came natural to me.
—Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 6 Aug. 2023
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Mack is smitten and wants to shelve her playbook for good.
—Courtney Howard, Variety, 14 Feb. 2024
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Read my full story on the metaverse at work here and see the full Fortune@Work playbook here.
—Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2022
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The plan is to spend the spring building a new playbook that will play into the strengths of these players.
—Sean Hammond, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2025
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Learning the playbook — team chemistry was a big thing for me.
—Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
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And then 40 years later, that playbook sort of remained the same.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2022
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Throw out the playbook Mike Elias has been following the last five years.
—Matt Weyrich, Baltimore Sun, 27 July 2024
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Alie-Cox warned him the most challenging part would be the playbook and the blocking schemes.
—Dan Labbe, cleveland, 17 May 2022
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If that’s the case, Harden needs to borrow a page from Chris Paul’s playbook.
—Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 13 May 2022
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The double-wing, then, was merely a part of their goal-line playbook.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2022
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There was a pandemic playbook last time around and it got pushed to the side and ignored.
—Rachel Cohrs, STAT, 3 June 2022
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But Fain insists the union will not follow that playbook this time.
—Chris Isidore, CNN, 14 Sep. 2023
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And if not, what does Maduro hope to gain by returning to an old playbook?
—Stefano Pozzebon, CNN, 12 Oct. 2024
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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
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There were plenty of black athletes who knew how to call a playbook.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2023
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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
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The leadership playbook that got us through 2024 won’t be enough for what lies ahead.
—Cynthia Pong, Jd, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
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Lee will open up the playbook, and let quarterback Steven Urquiza loose.
—Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 26 Apr. 2022
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This playbook is the same one being followed now by Trump.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2025
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More than a few companies now have detailed playbooks on what to do next time there’s a drought in Panama.
—Andre Claudio, Sourcing Journal, 28 Mar. 2025
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Things get out of hand when Cady starts using tricks from Regina’s playbook as her newfound social status goes to her head.
—Matthew J. Palm, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2025
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