Thesaurus results for TACTIC

tactic

noun

Definition of tactic

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something done to achieve a particular goal Toddlers use a lot of different tactics to try to get what they want.

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Recent Examples of tactic Changing tactics and targets The incident comes nearly a year after the Louvre was targeted in an audacious raid, which saw thieves steal priceless items in just a few minutes. — Jack Guy, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2026 The tactics that work today will eventually stop working, just as the tactics that worked a decade ago have already faded. — Richard McSweeney, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026 What threats are out there, and what are the league’s tactics to defang them? — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 8 Sep. 2026 Notable The tactics and scale are new, but the 2016 campaign featured a different, notorious set of entrepreneurs selling political division. — Max Tani, semafor.com, 2 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for tactic

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And other insects could offer promising methods of search and rescue in the future.

— Devika Rao, TheWeek, 3 Sep. 2026
Direct internal heating Stanford researchers overcame this challenge by developing an internal heating method.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2026

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It’s based on the alleged hiring of Scarpa by the FBI during the civil-rights era, when he was twice brought to Mississippi to use certain interrogation techniques that were considered off the table for agents.

— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026
Unlike an Olympic campaign, where sailors spend hundreds of hours every year refining technique on the water, SailGP teams get only a handful of days between events.

— Andrew Rice, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of technique

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And talk about schlock, surely there was something if not exactly schlocky then definitely sensationalist about Marcia’s way of eviscerating an artist or an event.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026
For the styling, the pair brought in Albrecht Goertz, a designer who was still some way from becoming a household name in automotive design.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 10 Sep. 2026

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