scenario

Example Sentences

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“My worst-case scenario is going back to Harvard, which isn’t a worse-case scenario at all,” said Zhang, who now lives in San Francisco.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

In a risk scenario where growth concerns intensify and financial conditions tighten further, higher-quality and longer-duration bonds should be better placed to perform.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

In this scenario, Starship would act as a protective shield and slow the spacecraft down as it enters the planet's atmosphere.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

The one thing both teams definitely don't want here is extra time, and what usually happens in that scenario is that the tie goes the distance.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

A strange scenario: a small comet hits the Earth, as millions of them have, and the response of our civilization is promptly to self-destruct.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan