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This means strategic planning can shift from producing static roadmaps to generating simulations and what-if models.
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Catherine Iger, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
This stage is great for testing what-if scenarios and seeing how multiple mitigations interact if combined before construction even comes into play.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 June 2025
Cook’s all-too-brief career is perhaps the most frustrating what-if in Cincinnati sports history.
—Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 30 July 2025
Having a center may have changed things dramatically for Los Angeles, but that is a big what-if.
—James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 July 2025
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Catherine Iger, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
This stage is great for testing what-if scenarios and seeing how multiple mitigations interact if combined before construction even comes into play.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 June 2025
Cook’s all-too-brief career is perhaps the most frustrating what-if in Cincinnati sports history.
—Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 30 July 2025
Having a center may have changed things dramatically for Los Angeles, but that is a big what-if.
—James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for what-if
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“What-if.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/what-if. Accessed 26 Aug. 2025.
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