SHOOTING SCRIPTS Synonyms: 5 Similar Words

shooting scripts

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plural of shooting script

as in scenarios

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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

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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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Flynn sent the texts just months before his wife Ashley, a beloved middle school volleyball coach, was fatally shot in the head inside their family’s suburban home in February, Watkins said.

— Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2026
Eventually, their texts spilled over to their personal lives and families.

— Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2026

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