How to Use game theory in a Sentence

game theory

noun

• My plan was akin to stealing the works of John Forbes Nash and trying to pass a course on game theory at Princeton.
  — Conor Orr, SI.com, 16 Jan. 2018
• One of game theory’s classic dilemmas is called the stag hunt.
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 17 Apr. 2022
• Yet, game theory doesn't take into account the passion of the game.
  — Laura Beers, CNN, 11 Jan. 2022
• Every part of the game theory and strategy told me, 'Winning is in sight.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 17 Jan. 2020
• Their work inspired academics around the world to delve deeper into what’s known as game theory.
  — Kate Vitasek, The Conversation, 6 Feb. 2024
• One of the great polymaths of the 20th century, father of the computer, one of the inventors of the hydrogen bomb, the creator of game theory.
  — Maria Konnikova, Wired, 23 June 2020
• In 2014, a team of behavioral scientists from Harvard and Yale tried to save the future—with a little game theory.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 1 July 2021
• One answer is that the candidates are stuck in a classic game theory problem.
  — Emily Larsen, Washington Examiner, 26 Feb. 2020
• Zachary studies game theory, and the novel relies frequently on rules and tropes of video game design.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2019
• At the tables, alas, his wizardly command of game theory keeps knocking up against the limits of his people skills.
  — John Domini, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2021
• Watching her explain game theory to Housewives using pool balls will go down as an all-time great TV moment.
  — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
• Democrats seem to have learned the lesson in game theory provided by the Republican Party in 2016.
  — The Economist, 5 Mar. 2020
• So what does game theory actually say about how this auto strike will end?
  — WIRED, 1 Oct. 2023
• The logic behind his answer was based on the prisoner’s dilemma, a concept in game theory.
  — Robert Evans, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2024
• What elements in particular changed my mind were things like the game theory.
  — Quartz, 12 Nov. 2021
• There’s some game theory involved in winning an Oscar pool.
  — Ben Zauzmer, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Mar. 2022
• By 2014, plenty of people had worked on the game theory of cooperation, the authors wrote, but that canon tends to ignore the fourth dimension—time.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 1 July 2021
• There is also defensive game theory seeping its way into the NFL that will inevitably slow down the rise of these young quarterbacks.
  — Conor Orr, SI.com, 6 Aug. 2019
• Daniel, who brought a terrifying yellow legal pad out to Fiji to show off all his game theory knowledge, then had an idea.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 17 Mar. 2022
• One such reading cites the cold logic of game theory, with distrustful adversaries locked in escalating threats and bluffs that began in the conflicts of the 1990s.
  — Max Fisher, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2023
• The game theory of the current situation would seem to incentivize the U.S. to play aggressively.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
• In game theory terms, the hostage is an asset with only one potential buyer: their home government.
  — Max Fisher, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2022
• The company uses techniques derived from game theory to decide how much each data point is worth.
  — Wired, 8 Nov. 2019
• Researchers have worked on this problem using game theory, the science of strategy.
  — Chris Blattman, WIRED, 17 Dec. 2022
• Gerry Mackie has shown that this can be explained using the ideas of game theory and coordination.
  — Angela Chen, The Verge, 5 Oct. 2018
• With a crackling fire burning in the hearth, Sigmund presented them with the prisoner’s dilemma, a game theory model devised in 1950.
  — Kristin Ohlson, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2012
• Thomas Schelling won the Nobel prize in economics in 2005 for his work on game theory in relation to conflict resolution and avoiding war.
  — Kwegyirba Croffie and Madeleine Thompson, CNN, 2 June 2018
• But if one suspect confesses and turns on the other—known in game theory as defecting—their help will be rewarded by going free while the other person goes to jail.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
• In such auctions, bidders lean on game theory to glean information from the various rounds of bidding and try to ensure that even if a bid fails, the rival spends as much as possible.
  — Ben Dummett, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2021
• Cummings likes big ideas, and for years has explored them in a series of long blogposts discussing everything from game theory to the ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu.
  — Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024