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
Examples of playbook in a Sentence
He studied the new plays in the team's playbook.
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Institutions are buying the same playbooks from the same advisors, routing critical workloads through the same cloud providers and stress-testing against the same severe-but-plausible scenarios.
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Aditya Vikram Kashyap, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
By now, the playbook is painfully predictable.
—Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2026
As the Federal Reserve considers how to respond to the latest inflationary spike, a former central banker has warned that the traditional monetary policy playbook doesn’t apply.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 17 May 2026
Dialogue between rivals over contentious issues is welcome, but Washington could do more harm than good if American negotiators bring the nuclear arms control playbook to AI talks.
—Editorial Board, Washington Post, 17 May 2026
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Aditya Vikram Kashyap, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
By now, the playbook is painfully predictable.
—Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2026
As the Federal Reserve considers how to respond to the latest inflationary spike, a former central banker has warned that the traditional monetary policy playbook doesn’t apply.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 17 May 2026
Dialogue between rivals over contentious issues is welcome, but Washington could do more harm than good if American negotiators bring the nuclear arms control playbook to AI talks.
—Editorial Board, Washington Post, 17 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for playbook
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“Playbook.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/playbook. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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