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scenarios

noun

plural of scenario

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

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Recent Examples of scenarios The analysis included regional differences in electricity generation and battery demand using International Energy Agency scenarios. — Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026 The report models several emissions scenarios and calls its worst case unlikely. — Gio Insignares, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026 That was a particularly welcome development with the Chiefs struggling in short-yardage scenarios. — Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2026 That may prove useful for both enhancing commercial telecommunications services and providing emergency coverage during disaster scenarios. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 19 Oct. 2026 The report examined two scenarios involving a relatively smooth transition. — Sheena Rossiter, NPR, 19 Oct. 2026 Building on such ideas, other researchers went on to propose similar scenarios between the early Earth and a Mars-sized object. — Micah Hanks, Space.com, 19 Oct. 2026 Advertisement As for the future, the doctor laid out a few scenarios. — Raj Panjabi, Time, 13 Oct. 2026 Axios reported that executives at OpenAI and Anthropic had privately begun gaming out scenarios for handling the political and public backlash if AI causes some kind of catastrophic incident. — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026

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Zion also enjoys technology and is especially proud of his skills with coding and creating computer scripts.

— The Star, Kansas City Star, 24 Oct. 2026
To be fair, the fault here lies equally with the scripts, which dump information without first creating suspense.

— Alison Herman, Variety, 23 Oct. 2026

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The effort responds to years of training from those models on screenplays without explicit permission, which has sparked questions over the legality of using those scripts without permission.

— Corbin Bolies, Variety, 20 Oct. 2026
The movie is fatally twee, a quality entirely antithetical to Ishiguro’s exquisite writing — that applies both to the Japanese British author’s fiction and his screenplays, like 2022’s English-language Kurosawa remake, Living.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2026

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