Thesaurus results for STRATEGY

strategy

noun

ˈstra-tə-jē

as in plan

a method worked out in advance for achieving some objective a statewide strategy to raise students' achievement test scores over the next three years

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Relevance

as in approach

the means or procedure for doing something you'll need a better strategy than just knocking on doors if you want to sell that many magazines

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Recent Examples of strategy Metreweli, the head of operations and the head of strategy. —

Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 13 Jan. 2026 Your book is full of practical strategies for staving off digital exhaustion. —

Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2026 While both entered the war to roll back Iranian influence, their strategies diverged. —

Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 13 Jan. 2026 The reality star says her strategy coming into the show was simple — stick with the Housewives. —

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Noun

Dumas has worked for Valero for four years but just moved to the Benicia location from Arizona a year ago, just a few months before the energy company announced a possible plan to cease or idle operations.

— Amanda Hari, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
The plan is to develop a cost-effective, energy-efficient technology for making innovative plastics based on polybutylene succinate (PBS) which are made entirely out of organic waste.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 8 Jan. 2026