scenarios

plural of scenario
as in scripts
the written form of a story prepared for film production submitted a scenario to the producers

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Recent Examples of scenarios Washington can’t stop talking about AI doom scenarios and the public backlash to data centers — but around the world, sentiment toward the fast-moving technology is much more nuanced. — Morgan Chalfant, semafor.com, 23 Sep. 2026 LLMs are great at finding blowups that exist—at searching the infinite landscape of fluid scenarios and plucking out the precise situation that breaks the equations. — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2026 There are plenty of real estate scenarios to walk through that have yet to be sorted. — Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2026 Increasing coordination statewide throughout the flood system can help avoid worst case scenarios. — Sean MacAday, Sacbee.com, 21 Sep. 2026 The Trojans have scored one or fewer goals in seven of their nine matches this season and are 0-5-2 in those scenarios. — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026 Raytron says its model has been trained for scenarios including gas detection, electrical inspection and perimeter monitoring. — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 20 Sep. 2026 What unites these seemingly disparate topics is Wilson’s knack for putting himself into scenarios with unusual people that lead him into unexpected territory—a lesson in the virtues of simple observation. — Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2026 And those are just the scenarios experts can currently envision. — Jared Perlo, NBC news, 19 Sep. 2026
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Noun
  • Larraín, alongside Anastasia Ayazi and Guillermo Calderón, co-scripts with Mariana Enriquez, whose writings provide the foundational inspiration, and their outstanding screenplay tells a hundred little side-stories in addition to its main narrative.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Murphy wants to write a few more scripts before sharing the story with the cast members.
    — Daysia Tolentino, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • His script first appeared in the 2023 Black List of unproduced screenplays.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2026
  • In 2016 Erickson’s Severance pilot made an annual list of best unproduced genre screenplays by BloodList—where other successes such as Bird Box (2018) and Don’t Worry Darling (2022) got their start.
    — Jordana Rosenfeld, Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 Sep. 2026

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“Scenarios.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scenarios. Accessed 30 Sep. 2026.

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