shooting scripts

noun

plural of shooting script
as in scenarios

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  1. scenarios
  2. scripts
  3. screenplays
  4. texts
Noun
  • Phillips said the league worked with consultants and did 10,000 simulated season outcomes to ensure the model addressed an assortment of championship scenarios.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 16 July 2026
  • Let’s estimate that at roughly $100 billion for all three scenarios.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 15 July 2026
Definition of scenarios
Noun
  • Check Point Research reported in 2025 that criminals were sharing jailbreak prompts for DeepSeek and using ChatGPT, Qwen and DeepSeek together to troubleshoot and optimize scripts for mass spam distribution.
    — Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
  • Yet an outstanding cast, scripts that are perceptive about grief and remorse, and Hennie’s impressionistic directing more than make up for it.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 8 July 2026
Definition of scripts
Noun
  • Nathaniel had written six collections of poetry, two screenplays, four literary novels, one essay collection.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 July 2026
  • Her classmates were writing screenplays and song lyrics, developing fashion lines and Instagram followings.
    — Jessica Contrera, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
Definition of screenplays
Noun
  • In addition to hieroglyph texts, the interior walls feature murals depicting portraits of seated and kneeling figures, and archaeological evidence of papermaking tools.
    — Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 14 July 2026
  • Olive answers many of the 55-year-old’s texts and emails, books him spontaneous travel (three trips to London so far this year), buys him groceries, and places meetings on his calendar—often without ever consulting him.
    — Margaux MacColl, Vanity Fair, 14 July 2026
Definition of texts
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