How to Use playbook in a Sentence

playbook

noun
  • He studied the new plays in the team's playbook.
  • In many ways, a16z created the playbook for the boom times in tech.
    Jeremy Anderberg, Longreads, 9 May 2023
  • The playbook from recent years hasn’t been tossed aside.
    David Moore, Dallas News, 26 May 2023
  • The playbook, going to school all the time, all that came natural to me.
    Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Mack is smitten and wants to shelve her playbook for good.
    Courtney Howard, Variety, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Learning the playbook — team chemistry was a big thing for me.
    Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • But Fain insists the union will not follow that playbook this time.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 14 Sep. 2023
  • But, the wide-leg pants and relaxed fit of the sweatshirt look straight out of the Gen Z influencer playbook.
    Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 25 Feb. 2024
  • That you must be wracked with sobbing grief is from the Everyone Lives the Same Life playbook.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
  • He's been able to weight train and jump right into the playbook in January.
    Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 5 June 2023
  • Like everyone else on the team, Kinchens has been busy learning the team’s new playbooks.
    Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The playbook for prevention is simple: Reduce the number of hits to the head, and reduce the strength of those hits.
    Celia Ford, WIRED, 12 Sep. 2023
  • After trailing by 14, the Wolves took a page out of Salesian’s playbook and forced some turnovers.
    Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Imagine being in a crisis at 2 a.m. and needing to choose the right playbook.
    Mehdi Daoudi, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Dara has gone back to an old trick in Uber’s playbook: cutting driver pay.
    Len Sherman, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Even so, the trolls now had a playbook for online extremism.
    Lauren Goode, WIRED, 20 Nov. 2023
  • But Thorne’s attention to detail doesn’t stop at the playbook.
    Ainslie Lee | Alee@al.com, al, 17 Aug. 2023
  • As with the 4chan message boards, GamerGate websites, Stormfront, 8chan, and 8kun, there is a playbook at work here.
    WIRED, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Faced with the changing landscape, these funds are switching up their playbook.
    Yiqin Shen, Bloomberg.com, 6 June 2023
  • Without the 15-year pro, coach Sean McVay’s playbook is not nearly as large.
    Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2023
  • While this language isn't new to the GOP playbook, Ramaswamy has at times gone further than some of his rivals.
    Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The condition of Stafford’s thumb will not shrink the playbook, according to coach Sean McVay.
    Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Texas Democrats must burn their old playbook or suffer the consequences.
    Sam Russek, The New Republic, 17 May 2023
  • At this point, Musk is taking a page out of the billionaire with a Batman complex playbook.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Left in the wake of that event was an infrastructure for mass collective action and a playbook for how to wield it.
    Paresh Dave, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2024
  • And more than a year later, most firms have yet to devise an official playbook on how much AI should be used day-to-day—and in what way.
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Now Greene gets to encourage her designers to have some big fun with the horror playbook.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Coker kept his focus on a few people around him, his teammates and his playbook.
    Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Her advice for Black women in business at large is to understand the playbook.
    Arcelia Martin, Dallas News, 18 Apr. 2023
  • With his unmatched prowess on timbales and cheerful pan-Latin rhythms, Puente rewrote the Latin pop playbook for half of the 20th century.
    Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 20 Apr. 2023

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