strategic

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“When you’re friends and you have allies, especially if they’re strategic, you also have to have the courage to say when you disagree,” she said at a wine fair in Verona before Trump’s comments.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Hassett said the U.S. had taken steps to mitigate the price spike, including releasing oil from its strategic petroleum reserve, and he noted that China may do the same.

From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026

Iain MacBeath, Bradford Council's strategic director for health, said it was also an opportunity to bring together various strands of work supporting families who often have "multiple issues to resolve".

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

“Such a failure would not necessarily be bearish but would leave the strategic technical outlook stuck in neutral for the time being,” he wrote.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026

He would spend hours on end in his room, calculating the strategic possibilities of his novel weapon until he succeeded in putting together a manual of startling instructional clarity and an irresistible power of conviction.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez