strategist
Americannoun
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strategists
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of strategist
First recorded in 1830–40; strateg(y) + -ist
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Explanation
That guy who's really good at making a detailed plan for winning at Monopoly? He's a strategist, or an expert at strategy, or planning. The noun strategist is most commonly used to talk about military people who plan wars, but it's useful whenever you mention someone who is particularly good at making a plan in any kind of complex situation. A coach acts as a strategist when she makes a plan to help her team win the game. A busy mom could also be called a strategist when she has a system for getting a bunch of kids fed, clothed, and out the door to school on time.
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BOJ officials’ signaling of faster hikes is chipping away at perceptions of the central bank as slow-moving—a view that has long been a drag on the yen, the foreign-exchange strategist said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
“The support we’ve received reflects growing confidence in Nithya Raman and her momentum in this race,” said Estevan Montemayor, chief strategist of the Estamos committee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Matt Maley, chief market strategist at Miller + Tabak, said in commentary shared with MarketWatch that he believes financials are looking attractive at these levels.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
“I seem to come across a stat every day that we ‘haven’t seen since 2000,’” Jonathan Krinsky, a top technical strategist at BTIG, told MarketWatch via email.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
She wanted to come back herself, but Zeus was not going to let his number one strategist leave his side while we’re bat- tling Typhon.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
The AI product space is increasingly competitive, underpinning demand for computing power and AI infrastructure, the strategists add.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Basic materials companies that supply the equipment and metals needed to build AI capacity are showing strong buy signals when analyzing market trends, earnings, valuation and sentiment, the strategists say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
The strategists said that energy prices and interest rates present risks in the near-term to their forecasts for the S&P 500’s EPS, but AI remains the most significant question in the long-term.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
“The return of credibility and end of ‘oversharing’ are long-term bullish for market resilience, but require higher bond risk premium,” say strategists led by Jared Woodward.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
They observe that, “surprisingly, strategists on both the left and right, despite their differences, converge on the individual as the unit of power.”
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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