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scenarios

noun

plural of scenario

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 Here are the best- and worst-case scenarios for the Cards in 2026. — Stephanie Stremplewski, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Sep. 2026 SonicMax notes that for typical start-stop cutting scenarios, the tool is estimated to provide 2 to 4 hours of use per charge depending on the material and power setting. — New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2026 Information/data, ecosystem participants, compliance and regulations, operating scenarios and aggregated risk exposure can change the meaning of the same action. — Rajjie Sarmey, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026 Its applications have also included fleet operations and disaster-response scenarios. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2026 According to the partners, Nvidia’s AI infrastructure allows OmniStar to process routing and mode selection scenarios faster than traditional systems, reducing computation time by as much as 10 times. — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 2 Sep. 2026 On the one hand, the tech opens up a bigger picture of what’s going on in the human body under a wide range of previously unmeasurable scenarios. — Victoria Song, The Verge, 2 Sep. 2026 Not much rain for SoCal, but a few showers from monsoonal moisture in some scenarios. — Sean MacAday, Sacbee.com, 1 Sep. 2026 Meta confirmed to Reuters that the plan, reportedly codenamed Project OT (short for organization transformation), explored scenarios in which Meta reduced some team headcounts by 60 percent and that the plan called for two rounds of layoffs. — Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 26 Aug. 2026

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There will be no B-movie monsters wearing terrible prosthetics, no scripts full of non sequiturs, no glitchy graphics.

— Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026
There was nothing particularly novel about the show’s premise, but the scripts were refreshingly dense with jokes, prioritizing laughs over contrived drama or seasonlong relationship arcs.

— Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of scripts

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Over 12 weeks, eight writers will be split across two rooms to develop original screenplays for Artists Equity’s slate.

— Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 24 Aug. 2026
One example is its partnership with The Wallis on programming including Live Reads, which brings together film and performing-arts audiences and artists for one-night only staging of screenplays.

— Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2026

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