as in plan
a method worked out in advance for achieving some objective
what's our game plan for touring the city?
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Recent Examples of game plan
That’s why sports coaches and CISOs need to have a game plan in place.
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Ray Heffer, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
But to distract any individual from the truth is the game plan, and has been for decades.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2025
Test your game plan The Chiefs test their whole roster against other teams in the preseason.
—Clint Haynes, Kansas City Star, 30 July 2025
Baldwin said Murphy has been helpful at all times, sharing advice on opposing pitchers during games — when both are in the lineup together or Murphy has a day off — and working together daily with Braves pitchers, going over game plans, scouting opposing hitters and the like.
—David O'Brien, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2025
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Ray Heffer, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
But to distract any individual from the truth is the game plan, and has been for decades.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2025
Test your game plan The Chiefs test their whole roster against other teams in the preseason.
—Clint Haynes, Kansas City Star, 30 July 2025
Baldwin said Murphy has been helpful at all times, sharing advice on opposing pitchers during games — when both are in the lineup together or Murphy has a day off — and working together daily with Braves pitchers, going over game plans, scouting opposing hitters and the like.
—David O'Brien, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for game plan
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Containment is part of a larger plan for managing a wildfire.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Trump said earlier this month that Vance is the most likely heir to his MAGA movement, but Vance continued to brush off speculation about his 2028 plans.—
Francesca Chambers,
USA Today,
29 Aug. 2025
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But the kicker, obviously, is that the team that did trade for Parsons is the team that literally invented the strategy the Titans favor.—
Nick Suss,
The Tennessean,
30 Aug. 2025
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That requires a content strategy built for LLM consumption and formats that AI prefers to cite.—
Sixteen Ramos,
USA Today,
30 Aug. 2025
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Our blueprint is clear: refinance $500 million in expensive debt, review and adjust the $30 million dividend, sell non-core assets such as Fuzzy’s, and refresh a board that has been too comfortable for an extended period.—
Jim Osman,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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According to Project 2025 Tracker, while the president has distanced himself from the agenda, a total of 317 objectives from the blueprint have been completed throughout Trump's second term and 63 are in progress.—
Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Aug. 2025
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The Battle of the Palouse is a long and storied rivalry between two schools situated less than eight miles apart from one another and will be run for the 93rd time as part of their college football programs this weekend.—
Kilty Cleary,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Aug. 2025
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Launched in 2014, this flagship program is central to the Indian leader’s political brand, built on promises of national pride and future greatness for the nation of 1.4 billion.—
Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
30 Aug. 2025
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Costanzo, 51, was sentenced to four years in prison and Recio, 57, to three years in the bribery scheme that played out in South Florida and New York between October 2018 and January 2020.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
29 Aug. 2025
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According to records, Lampkin engaged in the scheme between around October 2021 and March 2022.—
Kelli Arseneau,
jsonline.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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The project is the largest undertaking in Kentucky Venues history and aims to make the center the fifth-largest in the country.—
Matthew Glowicki,
The Courier-Journal,
22 Aug. 2025
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The project is one of several Trump pursued at the White House.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
22 Aug. 2025
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While the master plan of patterning one mature buck and then killing him on opening day is challenging even on great private properties, doing it on public ground is like pulling Excalibur from its stone.—
Alex Robinson,
Outdoor Life,
27 Aug. 2025
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This is how the master plan of the Metro system in the city of Paris came together in the 1970s.—
Alan Ohnsman,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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