How to Use strategic in a Sentence

strategic

adjective
  • The bridges have great strategic value.
  • The hill is located at a strategic position.
  • Brown agreed with the need for a strategic plan on aging.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Some of us circled the toys and left the catalog open to strategic pages for all to see.
    — Dawn Mitchell, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Not for the first time, Chornobyl became a strategic nightmare.
    — Oleksiy Radynski, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Some of these other people don’t know how to play a strategic game of this.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2024
  • For the most part, the reporting aspect of ESG isn’t strategic.
    — Peter Vanham, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2022
  • And that conflict centers on the economies of both China and the U.S., and who can gain strategic advantage in the years to come.
    — ABC News, 9 July 2023
  • Hill will announce her five-year strategic plan in mid-June.
    — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 3 June 2024
  • Some of your beefs were personal, but how many of them were strategic?
    — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 9 Feb. 2023
  • And he’s done so without coming on too strong as a strategic threat.
    — Martin Holmes, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The plan is to expand our collection in a more focused and strategic way.
    — Virginia Brown, Charlotte Observer, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The Orange City School District is in the process of creating a strategic plan.
    — Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 26 Jan. 2023
  • With the new strategic partner, the intention is to further expand and grow the business and the Slows Bar BQ brand.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 10 July 2023
  • For the air traveler in the summer of 2022, this all means more strategic planning.
    — Marnie Hunter, CNN, 24 June 2022
  • Guidetti: First thing to say is to do it, do put China in your strategic business plan.
    — Christopher Marquis, Forbes, 9 June 2022
  • The war by and against Russia’s strategic bombers The Soltsy raid was far from the first to target Russia’s strategic bomber force.
    — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The Harris team is being strategic about its courtship of labor.
    — Daniel Klaidman, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2024
  • My suggestion to you is to start with the basics: Do your strategic planning right.
    — Rene Nunez, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2022
  • What have your strategic priorities been for the business over the past few months?
    — Ayesha Javed, TIME, 16 Feb. 2025
  • For the West, this is easy when guided by purely strategic concerns.
    — Michael Kugelman, TIME, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Phasing out first class on long-haul routes isn’t without strategic risk.
    — Danny Lee, Fortune, 3 June 2023
  • Like Katt, Kendrick made strategic plans and kept every receipt.
    — Rob Marriott, VIBE.com, 30 Dec. 2024
  • It's designed to serve as both a strategic means of self-defense and as a powerful light for outdoors and in.
    — New Atlas, 2 Feb. 2025
  • To that end, the couple acquired a few strategic new pieces for the house, the most dramatic of which is the living room’s nine-foot-long sofa.
    — Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Ukraine retook the strategic city of Izyum, which had been the headquarters for the Russian effort to advance in Donbas from the north.
    — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2022
  • To that end, the company is using the cash raised to pay down its debt, and to fund some strategic acquisitions.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The treaty limits the numbers of strategic nuclear weapons deployed by Russia and the U.S.
    — Laurence Norman, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The survival of these works, through strategic planning, diplomatic appeasement and the German affinity with the conquered Dutch as ethnic brethren, is now the subject of an exhibit at the Mauritshuis.
    — Nina Siegal, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
  • For forward thinking firms, climate and sustainability is an area ripe for strategic investment.
    — Justin Worland, Time, 4 Apr. 2025

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