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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Every company wants to mimic the playbooks of the Googles or OpenAIs of the world.
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Dennis Woodside, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2025
Monochromatic dressing is a tenet of Meghan Markle’s style playbook.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2025
Across Europe, soccer players are routinely groomed into gambling accomplices by cons who follow a relatively consistent playbook.
—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 24 Oct. 2025
The inference is that Washington would employ a similar playbook in Taiwan, sending island’s youth to the meat grinder while ratcheting up an unserviceable debt.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
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Dennis Woodside, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2025
Monochromatic dressing is a tenet of Meghan Markle’s style playbook.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2025
Across Europe, soccer players are routinely groomed into gambling accomplices by cons who follow a relatively consistent playbook.
—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 24 Oct. 2025
The inference is that Washington would employ a similar playbook in Taiwan, sending island’s youth to the meat grinder while ratcheting up an unserviceable debt.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
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 30 Oct. 2025.
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