Thesaurus results for TACTIC

tactic

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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 One of the aspects of Vision Zero, created in 2014, sets a goal of increasing street-corner visibility at 1,000 intersections per year — a tactic known as daylighting. — Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 19 Sep. 2026 Individual business success often depends on the strategy and tactics employed by the business community as a whole, in or outside the cooperation of the government, in response to changing trade conditions. — Radu Magdin, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2026 But what is changing is the speed at which innovative tactics and operations can be rendered ineffective. — Nadia Schadlow, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2026 Microsoft disclaims exec’s comments News groups tried many different tactics to test if Microsoft and OpenAI products would output their news articles verbatim. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 17 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for tactic

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Furthermore, the team’s method of re-creating the Herculaneum scrolls could allow for more training of AI and potentially improve the algorithm’s success at reading ancient texts, the study authors wrote.

— Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2026
Their original claim was thus upheld; the error had only been in the implementation of the method, not the finding itself.

— Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2026

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The second is a misdirection technique called veiled capitalization, in which a word that appears to be a common noun is actually a proper one (or vice versa).

— New York Times, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2026
The technique is already widely used in laboratories, but conventional NMR systems are difficult to take into the field.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of technique

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Some oil tankers have made their way through the strait, but LNG tankers are a more troublesome target, according to Robin Mills, a non-resident fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy and CEO of Qamar Energy.

— Lauren Morganbesser, semafor.com, 22 Sep. 2026
But, in Hagwon, Lee does not seem interested in the ways in which her diplomatic, kind, generous characters might be corrupted.

— Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026

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