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 Taiwan has stepped up the intensity of the Han Kuang drills, incorporating reservists and more civilians into the exercises with a focus on real-world scenarios. ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026 The system runs on Insta360’s PanoMind AI model, which is reportedly trained on more than 10,000 hours of footage across 30+ scenarios, using visual information, audio cues, and camera motion. New Atlas, 13 Aug. 2026 Other planning engines run scenarios sequentially, in cycles measured in hours, which is why their AI can only report on what has already been computed rather than reasoning live, KetteQ said. Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 13 Aug. 2026 Unanswered emails can make people feel ignored or disrespected, or jump to worrying or envisioning worst-case scenarios, such as being on the brink of getting laid off or fired. Austin Sarat, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2026 His office also is creating public messaging to deploy in various scenarios and factoring the potential dynamics around prediction markets into security planning. Justine McDaniel, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2026 And so on through wildly divergent spousal scenarios, featuring such welcome faces as The Decameron dreamboat Amar Chadha-Patel and Emily Hampshire from Schitt’s Creek. Judy Berman, Time, 11 Aug. 2026 During their next 11-on-11 period, the Chiefs worked through some third-and-short scenarios. Pete Sweeney, Kansas City Star, 11 Aug. 2026 According to the China Military Bugle, the assessment team used the ship’s command system to send scenarios to Hubei’s combat information center. Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2026
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Noun
  • For Chandler, the bigger challenge was block-shooting a nonlinear series without having all the scripts available at first.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Details in the scripts came from things Oliver and Jools had actually done with the app.
    Maureen Kerr, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • One example is its partnership with The Wallis on programming including Live Reads, which brings together film and performing-arts audiences and artists for one-night only staging of screenplays.
    Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2026
  • One of them was Tony, a Black List script (an annual list of the most popular unproduced screenplays in Hollywood) written by Todd Bartels and Lou Howe that centered on Bourdain’s formative time as a dishwasher and budding cook in Provincetown.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2026

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“Scenarios.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scenarios. Accessed 19 Aug. 2026.

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