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as in plan
a method worked out in advance for achieving some objective
a statewide strategy to raise students' achievement test scores over the next three years
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as in approach
the means or procedure for doing something
you'll need a better strategy than just knocking on doors if you want to sell that many magazines
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Recent Examples of strategy
That requires a content strategy built for LLM consumption and formats that AI prefers to cite.
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Sixteen Ramos, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2025
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
The initiative is part of ESA's strategy to foster the continent's commercial space industry, offering institutional funding to support satellite and launch companies.
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 29 Aug. 2025
Grab the Racing Dudes Premium Picks and the Travers Betting Bible for detailed race-by-race analysis, exact wagering strategies, and multi-race plays designed to maximize your profits.
—Jared Welch, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
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Sixteen Ramos, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2025
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
The initiative is part of ESA's strategy to foster the continent's commercial space industry, offering institutional funding to support satellite and launch companies.
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 29 Aug. 2025
Grab the Racing Dudes Premium Picks and the Travers Betting Bible for detailed race-by-race analysis, exact wagering strategies, and multi-race plays designed to maximize your profits.
—Jared Welch, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for strategy
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The total reforestation plan seeks to plant 40,000 native ponderosa pine trees across 200 acres.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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But their plans quickly changed once the rest of the house began transforming.—
Lennie Omalza,
The Courier-Journal,
29 Aug. 2025
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They are trained using diverse datasets and learning approaches that reflect the full spectrum of human experience and values.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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Ultimately, the colonizers’ different approaches reflected a deeper difference: While Sweden wanted to incorporate the Sámi as Christianized, taxpaying citizens, the British—and later Anglo-Americans—tried to keep the Shawnee and other Native Americans at a distance.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
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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States have turned to using the method as access to the drugs needed for lethal injections has been limited in recent years.—
James Powel,
USA Today,
14 Aug. 2025
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With no vaccines or medicines to prevent or treat the virus, the most effective method to prevent West Nile infection is to avoid mosquito bites, according to CDPH.—
Tess Kenny,
Chicago Tribune,
14 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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How do student visas work? Since 1978, students could stay in the country as long as they were enrolled in a full-time educational program.—
Michelle Del Rey,
USA Today,
30 Aug. 2025
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More research with an appropriate sample size, methodology, assessment of patient compliance, and follow-up is needed on the topic.—
Anna Giorgi,
Verywell Health,
21 Aug. 2025
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Keep It Practical, Not Perfect There are formal methodologies and structured approaches for problem selection, like Six Sigma.—
Kelly Starman,
Forbes.com,
21 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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Over the past week, federal agents in California, New York, Michigan and Texas arrested 25 of the 28 individuals indicted by a grand jury for allegedly participating in the fraud scheme.—
Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Aug. 2025
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Current quantum architectures use error-mitigating techniques that limit systems to smaller circuits, with just a few cubits.—
Marco Chiappetta,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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All of the experts who spoke to Rolling Stone say that the companies behind these massively successful models have a responsibility to develop watermarking techniques that explicitly state when images were made with their models.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
30 Aug. 2025
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“Strategy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strategy. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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