How to Use carrot-and-stick in a Sentence
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This carrot-and-stick approach complements frameworks like CMMC.
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Tony Bradley,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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As with Mubarak, Sisi is using a carrot-and-stick approach in dealing with the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Muhammad Mansour,
Foreign Affairs,
18 May 2016
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Part of that is due to the Chinese government’s aggressive carrot-and-stick policies aimed at improving the country’s choked (and lung choking) roads.
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IEEE Spectrum,
3 May 2016
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Rubio leaned into the stick side of the carrot-and-stick approach to Cuba on Tuesday, dashing hopes from the Cuban government that a new move to modernize could spare it from further crushing sanctions.
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Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
23 June 2026
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Experts say California could prove a testing ground for a carrot-and-stick approach to preventing the collapse of insurance markets as growing wildfires, hurricanes and other climate disasters shake up the industry in other states.
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Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
16 Mar. 2026
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The city fixed more than 1,200 areas of sidewalk during the fiscal year that ended last June — triple the previous high from fiscal 2021 — thanks to a carrot-and-stick campaign launched in 2023.
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David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Mar. 2026
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That contrasts with President Biden’s carrot-and-stick approach, including the Inflation Reduction Act, which offered generous incentives to manufacturers and consumers.
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IEEE Spectrum,
9 Oct. 2025
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The approach wasn’t exactly carrot-and-stick, noted David Muhammad, executive director of the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform, a nonprofit that provides technical services to Ceasefire.
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Rachel Swan,
San Francisco Chronicle,
7 Sep. 2021
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