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scenario

noun

sə-ˈner-ē-ˌō

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as in script

the written form of a story prepared for film production submitted a scenario to the producers

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Recent Examples of scenario Twelve months was generally viewed as the best-case scenario. —

Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 3 June 2026 Although Rocket Money is our top choice, different budgeting apps accommodate different financial scenarios. —

Faith Wakefield, USA Today, 3 June 2026 This is a very different scenario. —

Sabrina Franza, CBS News, 3 June 2026 But the mere prospect of Democrats being shut out of the November runoff was enough to guarantee such a scenario would never happen in this reliably blue state. —

Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for scenario

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Plenty of gossip also leaked out from behind the scenes — rumors that the actors were overworked, and that Levinson’s constant and last-minute script changes cost time and money and drove some of them to the verge of quitting.

— Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 31 May 2026
Building on a concept devised by the director and producer Pierre-Henri Léon, Santiago Otheguy’s script plays fast and loose with Bizet’s opera and the Prosper Mérimée novella that inspired it — to the point of inventing an entirely new protagonist.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 31 May 2026