play out

Because of these patterns across states, Winchell thinks it's more likely to be a natural ecological process playing out -- not our individual efforts to stomp on bugs -- changing the population's trajectory.

Later, Gracey would listen to the recordings and close his eyes and imagine the narrative playing out.

Turner had no idea how his appearance on “The Masked Singer” would play out.

He and his supporters will be hoping that events play out in the same way again.

The algorithm plays out the possible moves to see the final outcomes of the different nodes and then selects the one that offers the best outcome based on a point valuation.