as in scripts
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 lawsuits claim the shooter had extensive conversations spanning multiple days about scenarios involving gun violence.
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Lauren Fichten, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
The analysis ranks each of the city’s 37 library branches and 56 recreation centers based on what the report considers its importance to the nearby community and uses those rankings to provide the City Council with possible scenarios.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
Daimon-Infinity is the world’s largest omni-modal dataset for Physical AI, featuring million-hour scale multimodal data, ultra-high-res tactile feedback, data from 80+ real scenarios and 2,000+ human skills, and more.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2026
Engineers constantly tweak the system to throw new (virtual) wrenches in the cogs to keep its Super Cruise as up to date as possible with the oddest and unlikeliest scenarios.
—Kristin Shaw, Popular Science, 30 Apr. 2026
Months earlier, the shooter had extensive conversations with ChatGPT discussing scenarios involving gun violence, the lawsuits allege.
—Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2026
Just as evolutionary biologists can reconstruct the branching history of a species from its genome, Astromech's engine is intended to explore potential future scenarios for pathogen or tumor evolution under therapeutic pressure.
—Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
Federal law can also serve as a backstop when state prosecutions face complicated legal or factual scenarios, such as self-defense.
—Andrew S. Boutros, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026
In her work, Mackintosh devises scenarios that are bold and almost aggressively simplified.
—Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
Lauren Fichten, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
The analysis ranks each of the city’s 37 library branches and 56 recreation centers based on what the report considers its importance to the nearby community and uses those rankings to provide the City Council with possible scenarios.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
Daimon-Infinity is the world’s largest omni-modal dataset for Physical AI, featuring million-hour scale multimodal data, ultra-high-res tactile feedback, data from 80+ real scenarios and 2,000+ human skills, and more.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2026
Engineers constantly tweak the system to throw new (virtual) wrenches in the cogs to keep its Super Cruise as up to date as possible with the oddest and unlikeliest scenarios.
—Kristin Shaw, Popular Science, 30 Apr. 2026
Months earlier, the shooter had extensive conversations with ChatGPT discussing scenarios involving gun violence, the lawsuits allege.
—Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2026
Just as evolutionary biologists can reconstruct the branching history of a species from its genome, Astromech's engine is intended to explore potential future scenarios for pathogen or tumor evolution under therapeutic pressure.
—Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
Federal law can also serve as a backstop when state prosecutions face complicated legal or factual scenarios, such as self-defense.
—Andrew S. Boutros, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026
In her work, Mackintosh devises scenarios that are bold and almost aggressively simplified.
—Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scenarios
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The sudden departure of new cast member Helena Bonham Carter just days into shooting has become the first great enigma of this season, leaving the French Riviera production in a scenario as uncertain as one of Mike White's scripts.—
Diego Parrado,
Vanity Fair,
26 Apr. 2026
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Season 2 is in the works, and the actors already have received the first couple of scripts.—
Amanda Champagne-Meadows,
Deadline,
26 Apr. 2026
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This year’s fellows and grantees are at the very beginning of that journey—developing screenplays where real scientific discovery and processes shape the story from the ground up.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
25 Apr. 2026
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More information about each of this year’s screenplays, provided by the Purple List team, follows.—
Hilary Lewis,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Apr. 2026
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“Scenarios.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scenarios. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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