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Eye-opening liquid liner, lip-defining pencils, and a slew of sparkly shadows are all a part of the 37-year-old’s playbook. — Zoe Ruffner, Vogue, "Alessandra Ambrosio’s Guide to Beachy Brazilian Beauty," 10 Apr. 2019 The Trump administration, by contrast, has consistently tried to run plays out of the authoritarian populist playbook — casting criticism and opposition as unpatriotic betrayals of the will of the people — without ever actually achieving popularity. — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, "The lesson of the midterms: resistance works," 7 Nov. 2018 And Gunn is a victim of this particular social media leverage playbook. — Graeme Mcmillan, The Verge, "What James Gunn’s firing says about the rising stakes of social media," 1 Aug. 2018 Greitens just demonstrated the limitations of the Trump playbook — the first rule of which is to fight allegations fiercely — for anyone not named Trump. — Amber Phillips, Washington Post, "Eric Greitens used Trump’s playbook to try to beat scandal. It didn’t work.," 30 May 2018 In the Indian Express, journalist Harish Damodaran points out that the three heartland states where BJP governments lost did a good job of following the prime minister’s playbook. — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, "Modi’s Party Crashes to Defeat, Casting Doubt on His Re-Election," 13 Dec. 2018 Gesicki and Smythe need the nightly cram sessions to digest Miami’s playbook. — Omar Kelly, Sun-Sentinel.com, "Dolphins rookie tight ends Mike Gesicki, Durham Smythe cramming to play catch up," 11 June 2018 One common strategy straight out of the mugger’s playbook is to catch victims off guard by asking an innocuous question. — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, "Beware those tricky thieves," 18 May 2018 The recent food fight mode, where players picked a team and fought for dominance, is totally out of Splatoon’s playbook. — Patricia Hernandez, The Verge, "Fortnite adds planes and now people are playing it like Battlefield," 6 Dec. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'playbook.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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