Thesaurus results for SCENARIOS

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 bomber could potentially conduct electronic attacks alongside its existing weapons operations, reducing its dependence on specialized escort aircraft in certain scenarios. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 28 Oct. 2026 Later, Iran’s state news agency IRNA published the different scenarios that could arise from the election. — Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2026 Take your commute time or those moments before sleep to envision yourself in aspirational scenarios. — Bianca Kratky, Glamour, 27 Oct. 2026 More than 90 pages of Anthropic's IPO prospectus, revealed Monday, center on the AI lab's multitude of corporate risk factors, many of which go beyond the kinds of boilerplate scenarios typically found in corporate filings. — Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2026 Google is pitching Genie 4 as a tool that could be helpful for things like pre-visualization for filmmakers, prototyping game ideas, and making training scenarios for robots. — Jay Peters, The Verge, 27 Oct. 2026 That meant that such an option was out of the question, except of course in emergency scenarios. — Michaela Musilova, Space.com, 27 Oct. 2026 Building realistic best-case, base-case and downside scenarios helps companies adjust before a shift becomes a crisis. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026 The report models several emissions scenarios and calls its worst case unlikely. — Gio Insignares, CBS News, 20 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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