Synonyms for playbook
ˈpleɪˌbʊkplay·book

Princeton's WordNet

1. playbooknoun

   a notebook containing descriptions and diagrams of the plays that a team has practiced (especially an American football team)

2. playbooknoun

   a book containing the scripts of one or more dramatic plays

   "the 1963 playbook leaves out the whole first scene"

3. playbooknoun

   a scheme or set of strategies for conducting a business campaign or a political campaign

   "they borrowed a page from the playbook of the opposition"

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How to use playbook in a sentence?

1. Daniel Wessel:

   This is the oldest trick in the GOP playbook, republicans are trying to distract because they know they can't win on the issues.

2. Antony Blinken:

   Our concern is that Russia may make a serious mistake of attempting to rehash what it undertook back in 2014, when it amassed forces along the border, crossed into sovereign Ukrainian territory and did so claiming falsely that it was provoked, so the playbook that we've seen in the past was to claim some provocation as a rationale for doing what it, what it intended and planned to do. All which is why we're looking at this very carefully.

3. Fox News:

   Putin’s Playbook: Russia’s Secret Plan to Defeat America.

4. Jesse Hunt:

   Even after their epic collapse in 2016, when you would think the Democrats would reconfigure and move to the middle, they still have far-left progressive candidates, democrats in the last cycle tried to make it a referendum on Trump. … They’ve tried that playbook before and failed.

5. Antony Blinken:

   We've seen this playbook before, now, we don't know whether President Putin has made the decision to invade. We do know that he's putting in place the capacity to do so in short order should he so decide.