SHOOTING SCRIPTS Synonyms: 5 Similar Words

shooting scripts

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plural of shooting script

as in scenarios

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Know More Nitta drew parallels between the Claude incident and OpenAI’s agentic experiment earlier this year, where autonomous agents hacked AI firm Hugging Face, saying that in both scenarios, the pattern of failure is the same.

— Jake Angelo, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2026
These predictions run the gamut, ranging from breakout performances and major trophies to worst-case injury scenarios and disastrous starts.

— Janson Duench, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

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Participants followed detailed scripts to create a scenario as close to a real mass-casualty event as possible.

— Jessica Riley, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026
Eighty years of evidence, much of it the party’s own, shows cadres parroting the scripts given to them, performing the required contrition, and then reverting to their earlier behaviors the moment the campaign ends.

— ANDREW MERTHA, Foreign Affairs, 17 Sep. 2026

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The site’s clients can be almost anyone — students and academics looking for help with research papers; business people needing proposals and projects written or edited; and/or writers of books, screenplays and other manuscripts.

— Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2026
Kolbrenner’s producing credits include client spec screenplays for The Gorge, Free Guy, The Tomorrow War, Prisoners and The Christmas Chronicles franchise.

— Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2026

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Apple's new Siri uses large language models to search through a user's local personal data, including texts, emails, and calendar appointments.

— Kif Leswing, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026
But Mark, in Ronson’s telling, quickly grows antagonistic, abruptly asking Ronson to sign an NDA, then later barraging him with suspicious texts and threatening him with a pair of goons.

— Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2026

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