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The word "playbook" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a manual or collection of strategies and tactics used in a particular activity or field. For example, "The coach consulted his playbook for the best way to set up the team's next play."
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playbook
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A book containing the text of a play.
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"That was really tearing up the [former NSW premier] Neville Wran playbook of how to get re-elected … starting a fight with the media in the six months leading up to an election," he said.
Carr, a former NSW premier, pleaded with Labor to be more "canny" and "cunning" in its political strategies and said he knew the Labor government had "lost its way" when it picked a fight over media law reform in the lead-up to a federal election – a move which "tore up the Neville Wran playbook of how to get re-elected".
At the sold-out Guardian Live event for 2,000 Guardian Members on 6 October in Westminster, Owen Jones asked Klein why she believes climate change is a wake-up call for civilisation, why it's now about changing the world and not just light bulbs and how tearing up the "free-market playbook" may be the answer.
Australia's wannabe culture warriors are copying a playbook that's been honed for decades in Britain and the US.
Meanwhile, its creditors are following an all-too-familiar playbook.
This month, The Merchants of Doubt - a film based on research by Harvard science historian Professor Naomi Oreskes and co-author Erik Conway - exposes the fossil fuel lobby's self-described "win ugly or lose pretty" tactics, drawn straight from Big Tobacco's playbook.
The rules against collusion seem like a hangover from 1903, straight out of the Henri Desgrange playbook and his detestation of any collaboration at all between riders.
When Daniel Ek used the words "incredible" and "profound" in his closing sentence before handing over to musician D'Angelo to close the show, it was straight out of Apple's press-launch playbook.
You have to throw out past rules about what you do and don't say or share and rethink that playbook.
Then compounding it with his bizarre offer of an "ad hoc consultancy" role straight out of the Wernham Hogg playbook.
And signs are growing that medium-range Musudan missiles might be loosed from a launch site on the eastern seaboard, aimed presumably to fall somewhere into the Pacific Ocean.The threats and warnings are all from a hallowed playbook, only louder this time.
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