How to Use playbook in a Sentence

playbook

noun
  • He studied the new plays in the team's playbook.
  • Our playbook was deep this year.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2026
  • And there’s no playbook for it yet.
    — Kevin Kruse, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Iran's playbook is to talk and then fight.
    — FOXNews.com, 8 May 2026
  • Get my free playbook for founders who want their time back.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • The playbook is the same since Goebbels.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 13 May 2026
  • In many ways, Swift rewrote that playbook.
    — Sinéad O'Sullivan, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Even the best playbook is useless if no one reads it.
    — Rhett Power, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The market is well aware of that playbook.
    — CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Ingold kept his goal sheet in his playbook.
    — Jayson Jenks, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The first is to build systems, not playbooks.
    — Varun Milind Kulkarni, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • The playbook is sitting in plain sight.
    — Stuart N. Brotman, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Your playbooks need to account for that.
    — Philip Martin, Fortune, 29 May 2026
  • The lesson, in her view, is not to copy a playbook but to build one.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2026
  • But that doesn’t mean the playbook won’t yield profits.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Not in the Swift-Kelce playbook.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Much of the playbook for sports law has been overhauled over the last two decades.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • It’s been nice to bounce my old playbook off him and compare it to this new one.
    — Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Health should follow the same playbook.
    — Julian Hayes Ii, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • So will the Aztecs expand the playbook this week?
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Out back, the setup feels straight out of a Nordic playbook.
    — Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 23 Feb. 2026
  • There were plenty of black athletes who knew how to call a playbook.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Plus, Tesla has the same playbook to work from this year.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2025
  • These moves feel straight out of the Arteta playbook.
    — Kaya Kaynak, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • And that’s the playbook that a lot of liberals ran.
    — Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
  • This article gives you a clean playbook for that shift.
    — Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • At the moment, the rounds are racing ahead of the playbook.
    — Renana Ashkenazi, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Fields would give the Chiefs a chance to return the play to the playbook.
    — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Learning the playbook — team chemistry was a big thing for me.
    — Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • So, um, that playbook was designed by one of the partners in the firm.
    — Rafael Perez, Daily News, 25 May 2026

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