noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an unlikely scenario/occurrence
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They should build a new road, but that’s an unlikely scenario.
doomsday scenario (= a description of a very bad and hopeless situation )
the nightmare scenario (= the worst possible situation )
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Emergency planners are trying to prepare for this nightmare scenario.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
alternative
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One would construct alternative scenarios , and brood about them.
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The downside of such excellent economic performance is that virtually any alternative scenario will represent a deterioration.
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Gallup offered the alternative scenarios shown in the table - including a deal with the Ulster Unionists.
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It made dissent, social criticism, and alternative scenarios more difficult to articulate.
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However, the facts still fit two alternative scenarios: a. Fred has been encouraging pilferage over a long period.
different
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Two different game scenarios for the death of the boy genius.
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Taking their recent findings into account, they begin to script a different scenario .
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Several different scenarios can be calculated and printed out very rapidly.
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Where moderate fires or controlled burns occur, a different scenario will unfold.
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The last match featuring Ballesteros and Olazabal against Strange and Kite produced an altogether different scenario .
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If a big fire strikes, an entirely different scenario would occur.
ill
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The worst case scenario suggests aircraft could be responsible for up to 43 percent of the projected rise in global temperature.
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It is the worst possible scenario .
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It was Liz's worst scenario coming true, in front of hundreds of millions of television viewers.
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The worst case scenario is a sausage biscuit with egg, hash browns and orange juice combination.
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A little melodramatic, I grant you, but it represented the worst-case scenario .
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Would this be the worst case scenario or the best case scenario?
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The worst-case scenario for the insurers is a slow-moving front over the upper Thames that gradually moves over London.
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A government cost benefit analysis in 1986 showed that the cost of vaccination exceeded the worst case scenario cost of eradication.
likely
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A more likely scenario is that male rape victims would be afforded the same shoddy treatment as their female counterparts.
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We suspect the latter is the most likely scenario .
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The likely scenario if reform fails, on the other hand, is dismaying.
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The most likely scenario is for some type of convergence.
plausible
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This, too, is a plausible scenario .
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Miracle in the figurative sense, since although we do not know how cells evolved, quite plausible scenarios have been proposed.
possible
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This list is almost endless but nomatterhow small the likelihood, every possible scenario must be explored.
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It is the worst possible scenario .
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A possible scenario is depicted in Figure 2.3.
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Those are still only ideas, and defense planners are paid to examine every possible scenario .
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This is a possible scenario , but an implausible one.
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And that was including the very worst possible scenario of disasters she could devise.
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A possible scenario for self-publishers is this: You have been meeting with other writers for some time.
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Thus the number of possible scenarios for the life, evolution and disappearance of musical instruments is almost infinite.
unlikely
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That is an unlikely enough scenario to dismiss out of hand, though.
whole
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There are further problems with the whole scenario .
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I told the whole bizarre scenario to Ron and Syndi.
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The fivesome are a comfortable shambles, wandering around and, like, being nice and loose about this whole gig scenario .
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This was certainly the first time the President had heard the whole scenario .
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I sketch out the whole scenario in seven minutes flat.
■ NOUN
case
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The worst case scenario suggests aircraft could be responsible for up to 43 percent of the projected rise in global temperature.
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The worst case scenario is a sausage biscuit with egg, hash browns and orange juice combination.
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A little melodramatic, I grant you, but it represented the worst-#case scenario .
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Would this be the worst case scenario or the best case scenario?
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Fortunately, we are still a considerable distance from such a worst-#case scenario .
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The worst-\#case scenario for the insurers is a slow-moving front over the upper Thames that gradually moves over London.
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A government cost benefit analysis in 1986 showed that the cost of vaccination exceeded the worst case scenario cost of eradication.
doomsday
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Admittedly, there is now much less reason for invoking this doomsday scenario .
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A year ago, few people were talking about such a doomsday scenario .
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As with the Doomsday scenario , this further militarisation of the police occurred without public debate or accountability.
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One doomsday scenario: No Bonds, no stadium.
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In 1987, I didn't have to concern myself about Doomsday scenarios as I was staying in Manchester.
nightmare
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It must be said, however, that this is a nightmare scenario which the Government does not subscribe to.
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Keith says this match was a nightmare scenario and Gloucester are in trouble.
■ VERB
consider
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It is just an extension of on-the-road campaigning. Consider this scenario which I see consistently two or three times a year.
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Home Entertainment Another application area of e-commerce is that of home entertainment. Consider the following scenario .
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Let us consider the possible scenarios .
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Still, you do have time to show your document. Consider this scenario .
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He began to consider the worst possible scenario .
create
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Sometimes I created elaborate scenarios that tested my will to save him.
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In perhaps his most startling and disturbing model, Thompson created two scenarios .
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Conversely, we can see that the unhappy coincidence of an invalid self-description and a negative evaluation creates a disastrous scenario .
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It creates a paradoxical scenario in which the organization acts as both the perpetrator and the victim of its pernicious low performance.
follow
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If this is true, the education secretary will be hoping for one of the following scenarios .
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Consider the following scenario: The amendment is passed and ratified by the states.
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To make my point, follow this scenario .
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For the Purposes of economic analyses we will choose the following representative scenario for retrofitting an existing oil boiler.
imagine
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Intelligent fills Imagine the scenario - you are creating a set of figures ordered by month.
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It is difficult to imagine a scenario in which most companies will enthusiastically promote affirmative action as a matter of policy.
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Somehow, when she had planned her perfect summer, she had never imagined a scenario like this.
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We were sitting around, watching games, imagining every scenario .
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Making changes Imagine the scenarios for four short stories.
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But once again, one can imagine such an extreme scenario , although very rare.
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I can imagine the scenario that must have taken place before the Bill was introduced.
play
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He is always very receptive and is willing to share with you, to play out various scenarios .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A common scenario is that a woman marries and sacrifices her career for her husband.
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In a worst-case scenario all life on the planet would be wiped out by a nuclear war.
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This is every politician's nightmare scenario .
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Under the most hopeful scenario , it will take 20 years to clean up the mess.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A possible scenario is depicted in Figure 2.3.
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Our scenarios are incomplete, no more than works-in-progress, meant to be evocative, not exhaustive.
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The scenario is world war two and you are at the controls of the fictional whirly-bird.
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The scenarios that follow shall include only events that were witnessed and caused injuries, damage, or death.
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Though not out of the range of historic experience, absolute economic decline is, of course, an extreme scenario .