How to Use strategic in a Sentence

strategic

adjective
  • The bridges have great strategic value.
  • The hill is located at a strategic position.
  • Some of us circled the toys and left the catalog open to strategic pages for all to see.
    Dawn Mitchell, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Not for the first time, Chornobyl became a strategic nightmare.
    Oleksiy Radynski, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Some of these other people don’t know how to play a strategic game of this.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2024
  • For the most part, the reporting aspect of ESG isn’t strategic.
    Peter Vanham, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2022
  • And that conflict centers on the economies of both China and the U.S., and who can gain strategic advantage in the years to come.
    ABC News, 9 July 2023
  • Hill will announce her five-year strategic plan in mid-June.
    Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 3 June 2024
  • Some of your beefs were personal, but how many of them were strategic?
    Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 9 Feb. 2023
  • And he’s done so without coming on too strong as a strategic threat.
    Martin Holmes, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The plan is to expand our collection in a more focused and strategic way.
    Virginia Brown, Charlotte Observer, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The Orange City School District is in the process of creating a strategic plan.
    Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 26 Jan. 2023
  • With the new strategic partner, the intention is to further expand and grow the business and the Slows Bar BQ brand.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 10 July 2023
  • The war by and against Russia’s strategic bombers The Soltsy raid was far from the first to target Russia’s strategic bomber force.
    Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The Harris team is being strategic about its courtship of labor.
    Daniel Klaidman, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2024
  • For the West, this is easy when guided by purely strategic concerns.
    Michael Kugelman, TIME, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Phasing out first class on long-haul routes isn’t without strategic risk.
    Danny Lee, Fortune, 3 June 2023
  • To that end, the couple acquired a few strategic new pieces for the house, the most dramatic of which is the living room’s nine-foot-long sofa.
    Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 22 Mar. 2023
  • To that end, the company is using the cash raised to pay down its debt, and to fund some strategic acquisitions.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The treaty limits the numbers of strategic nuclear weapons deployed by Russia and the U.S.
    Laurence Norman, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2023
  • September 2024 Seven of Swords: This month you are being called to act in a more cautious and strategic way.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2024
  • With challenges occurring around the clock, the celebrities must be strategic to secure their space.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 6 Dec. 2023
  • There is a method behind this look that calls for strategic product usage and placement.
    Lisa Desantis, Glamour, 29 Dec. 2024
  • As leaders, we are forced to make big strategic decisions.
    Shep Hyken, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Opening the school with sixth graders was a strategic decision by Valdiosera.
    Brandon Drenon, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The largess was strategic — one topper could attract thousands who would enroll in the hope of becoming just like them.
    Zishaan A Latif Mansi Choksi, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2023
  • These questions must drive a strategic industrial plan that meets the unique challenges of the U.S. economy over the next decade.
    Felicia Wong, The New Republic, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Rovio then said on Feb. 6 that its board of directors had decided to launch a strategic review.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2023
  • In what was possibly a strategic move on her end, the news broke during one of the weekends the singer has off from her catalog-spanning Eras tour.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
  • One thing has become clear: traditional strategic planning, which can take a year or more, is ill-suited to the pace of generative AI’s evolution.
    Jessica A. Stansbury, Baltimore Sun, 29 Dec. 2024

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