playbook
noun
play·book
ˈplā-ˌbu̇k 
1
: one or more plays in book form
2
: a notebook containing diagrammed football plays
3
: a stock of usual tactics or methods
straight from his opponent's political playbook
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He studied the new plays in the team's playbook.
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Brazil thus ceased to be a peripheral observer of this geopolitical playbook and became its active protagonist, setting the stage for the doctrine’s most devastating domestic application.
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Evandro Cruz Silva, The Dial, 10 Feb. 2026
Other ransomware groups are starting to follow the same playbook.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Feb. 2026
That said, the government has a decades-old playbook on how to get workers through economic shocks.
—Josh Tyrangiel, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2026
Jessica Mathias, executive director of Open Your Heart To The Hungry And Homeless, is using a COVID-era playbook to meet the current moment.
—CBS News, 9 Feb. 2026
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Evandro Cruz Silva, The Dial, 10 Feb. 2026
Other ransomware groups are starting to follow the same playbook.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Feb. 2026
That said, the government has a decades-old playbook on how to get workers through economic shocks.
—Josh Tyrangiel, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2026
Jessica Mathias, executive director of Open Your Heart To The Hungry And Homeless, is using a COVID-era playbook to meet the current moment.
—CBS News, 9 Feb. 2026
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“Playbook.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/playbook. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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