How to Use playbook in a Sentence
playbook
noun- He studied the new plays in the team's playbook.
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Each time the old-school playbook would be to kick the ball.
—Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Nov. 2021
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But Democrats have said the playbook is not so cut and dry.
—Ella Lee, The Hill, 1 Nov. 2024
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Reid’s use of a deep playbook helped the Chiefs make it to the Super Bowl.
—David Hill, Rolling Stone, 6 Feb. 2025
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For the rest of the game, the IU playbook subtly shifted.
—The Indianapolis Star, 27 Nov. 2022
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And if that doesn't sell you, the vest-as-a-top look is straight out of the Jane Birkin playbook.
—Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 20 June 2022
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The playbook is the same for Malaysia's grand old party.
—Eileen Ng, ajc, 10 Nov. 2022
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In many ways, a16z created the playbook for the boom times in tech.
—Jeremy Anderberg, Longreads, 9 May 2023
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There is no playbook for the worst moments in your life.
—Ximena N. Beltran Quan Kiu, CNN, 18 Jan. 2023
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Is there any question, as Allen writes, the US needs a new Covid-19 playbook for the new year?
—Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 15 Dec. 2021
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The playbook from recent years hasn’t been tossed aside.
—David Moore, Dallas News, 26 May 2023
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Take a page from the Putin playbook: Deny that the jets will ever go to Ukraine.
—WSJ, 24 Mar. 2022
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The playbook, going to school all the time, all that came natural to me.
—Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 6 Aug. 2023
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Mack is smitten and wants to shelve her playbook for good.
—Courtney Howard, Variety, 14 Feb. 2024
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Read my full story on the metaverse at work here and see the full Fortune@Work playbook here.
—Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2022
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The plan is to spend the spring building a new playbook that will play into the strengths of these players.
—Sean Hammond, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2025
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Learning the playbook — team chemistry was a big thing for me.
—Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
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And then 40 years later, that playbook sort of remained the same.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2022
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Throw out the playbook Mike Elias has been following the last five years.
—Matt Weyrich, Baltimore Sun, 27 July 2024
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Alie-Cox warned him the most challenging part would be the playbook and the blocking schemes.
—Dan Labbe, cleveland, 17 May 2022
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If that’s the case, Harden needs to borrow a page from Chris Paul’s playbook.
—Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 13 May 2022
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The double-wing, then, was merely a part of their goal-line playbook.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2022
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That play was improvised, but put it back in the playbook.
—Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 11 Dec. 2021
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There was a pandemic playbook last time around and it got pushed to the side and ignored.
—Rachel Cohrs, STAT, 3 June 2022
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But Fain insists the union will not follow that playbook this time.
—Chris Isidore, CNN, 14 Sep. 2023
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In 2025, the Democrat party seems to be taking a page out of Bill’s playbook.
—Grace Curley, Boston Herald, 26 May 2025
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And if not, what does Maduro hope to gain by returning to an old playbook?
—Stefano Pozzebon, CNN, 12 Oct. 2024
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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
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The final chronological entry in the series takes a page from Twilight’s playbook, splitting the last book into two parts.
—Kelly Martinez Published, EW.com, 5 July 2025
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Project 2025, the conservative playbook, even explicitly calls to delist the grizzly bear.
—Christine Peterson, Wired News, 5 July 2025
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