How to Use best-case in a Sentence

best-case

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• Even under best-case scenarios for climate action, up to half the world’s glaciers may be gone by 2100.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 21 Sep. 2024
• But best-case scenarios rarely come to pass in the NFL.
  — Howard Megdal, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
• The results cheered Wall Street bulls who called it a best-case scenario.
  — Angel Adegbesan, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2023
• Now, that best-case scenario may be coming to fruition.
  — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2023
• Under a best-case scenario, that might get the Rangers five innings worth of work.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 24 Mar. 2023
• Of course, even in this best-case scenario, the problem would be only half solved.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
• But if the play-in was inevitable, the Warriors might have lucked into a best-case scenario.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2024
• Final record: 14-3 This would be the absolute best-case scenario for the Bengals, to say the least.
  — Chris Roling, The Enquirer, 5 June 2023
• For a song that’s been gathering dust in the vaults for two decades, that’s pretty close to a best-case scenario.
  — Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 22 Feb. 2023
• In a best-case scenario, Friedl could return to next week against the St. Louis Cardinals.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 16 May 2023
• What’s the Warriors’ best-case scenario this off-season?
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 14 June 2024
• He’s projected to go either at the end of the second round, best-case scenario, or early in the third.
  — Elliott Teaford, Orange County Register, 23 Apr. 2024
• In a best-case scenario, Ledger said, the organization will stop burning coal in the next four to five years.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2024
• This best-case scenario still features the play-in tournament.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
• Post, in a best-case scenario, would check multiple boxes for the Warriors.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 27 June 2024
• In a best-case outcome, these strong defenses would cause China to cease its attack and seek peace.
  — Andrew F. Krepinevich, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
• The bank says her election and a Democratic control of the House and Senate is the economy’s best-case scenario.
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 5 Sep. 2024
• Instead, the Rams are 6-7, and probably looking at a best-case scenario finish of 9-8.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2023
• In a best-case scenario, a frozen pipe may cause a brief interruption in your water supply.
  — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2024
• Tanimoto calls the changes and the results have been the ‘best-case scenario’ for him on multiple levels.
  — Cody Thorn, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Feb. 2024
• Martin has experience in the scheme, but seeing a young player emerge would be a best-case scenario.
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2024
• In a best-case scenario, a child is matched and placed in a home for a trial stay; parents then submit the legal paperwork to formalize the adoption.
  — Sally Ho, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2023
• In a best-case scenario, Miller can be called back as soon as July 25 (and possibly sooner, if someone else on the Dodgers’ pitching staff goes on the injured list in the meantime).
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2024
• Liftoff might happen at 8 a.m. Eastern time, starting what the company has said would be a roughly 90-minute flight under its best-case scenario.
  — Micah Maidenberg, wsj.com, 14 Apr. 2023
• In a best-case scenario (for an attacker, that is), the algorithm is 95 percent accurate.
  — WIRED, 12 Aug. 2023
• But even in a best-case scenario in which the entire world meets Paris Agreement climate targets, researchers expect food inflation to rise.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 9 June 2023
• In a best-case scenario for the administration, those goals work together.
  — Coral Davenport, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
• Like yesterday’s best-case scenario for Oregon State, this is not our prediction.
  — Ndaschel, oregonlive, 26 July 2023
• And in a best-case scenario, stricter enforcement might even lead to more and better contraceptive options for women.
  — Maria Aspan, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2023
• In a best-case scenario, existing customers will race to upgrade their phones and iPads to get access to the AI, and those loyal to other operating systems may make the switch.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 27 June 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024