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scenario

[si-nair-ee-oh, -nahr-] / sɪˈnɛər iˌoʊ, -ˈnɑr- /


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However, they also see a scenario in which bots disrupt banks’ engagement with customers, scanning for products and executing transactions.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

The detective said the "most likely scenario" was the baby came from about the date of the paper.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

In that scenario, "one extreme could be the destruction of humanity," he warned.

From Barron's Sep. 16, 2026

The outlines of this scenario are already visible, and the risk is inflation is higher and more persistent than expected.

From MarketWatch Sep. 15, 2026

It was impossible to say how much was there, but the nightmare scenario, that the fuel was dry and burning, had not turned out to be true.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

Over time, he said, he took note when members of OpenAI’s safety team left the company, including Daniel Kokotajlo, who started a research team forecasting different scenarios of AI development.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

With the data, Vanguard mapped out four different scenarios for a “typical” retiree, with the example of somebody who had $360,000 when they started retirement.

From MarketWatch Sep. 15, 2026

AI researchers, experts and bosses worried about the technology's potential to endanger humanity have outlined unsettling scenarios.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

Whether it is nuclear power, the global population explosion, cyberhackers or the Y2K bug, most doomsday scenarios have not played out because people, governments and corporations adjust and fix problems as they emerge.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

Long after crime had peaked, in fact, some of them continued to predict ever darker scenarios.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt




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