Adjective : a what-if scenario. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : a series of what-ifs. From Dictionary.com.
O'BRIEN: Now, let's ratchet up the what-if machine. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 8, 2004] Reference
But they refused to be drawn into what-if scenarios. From Wordnik.com. [Red Alert? Me and Pee-wee, We Got a Plan] Reference
The manuscript for his what-if book have been leaked. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 19, 2007] Reference
They had been playing a game of what-if, had they not?. From Wordnik.com. [One Night for Love]
My question for Siegfried is actually a what-if question. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 8, 2003] Reference
Let's take a look in the future Robert and lets do what-if. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 23, 2006] Reference
But if you play the what-if game, you will make yourself crazy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2004] Reference
And there's been a lot of talk about what-if, what-if, what-if. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 25, 2008] Reference
Back to the terror plot here in London and the what-if scenario?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 10, 2006] Reference
And so when you watch this hour you sort of get a real "what-if?". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2007] Reference
Yes, there are dissections of strategy and enough what-if analyses. From Wordnik.com. [The Armchair Air War] Reference
CLINTON: Well, you know, I'm not going to engage in the what-if game. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Hillary Clinton Discusses Politics and Life at the White House - December 11, 2000] Reference
WATTS: We're guessing, you know, as you say, playing the what-if game. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 16, 2007] Reference
One thing that didn't come out of these talks is the "what-if" factor. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 31, 2004] Reference
We're going to have a what-if look ahead, coming up on AMERICAN MORNING. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 7, 2008] Reference
Joining me from Miami for a little what-if this evening is David Bossie. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2003] Reference
Consider them not “what-if history,” but “what if Washington ...?”. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Engelhardt: Five Absurd Things That Simply Can't Happen in Wartime Washington] Reference
Come up with all the what-if scenarios you can imagine, and rehearse them. From Wordnik.com. [Nicola Griffith: Taser Buzz Kill] Reference
Dissect them, slice and dice them, contemplate different what-if scenarios. From Wordnik.com. [Matt Wilson: Ten Rules Every Entrepreneur Should Live By] Reference
I mean, everybody is dealing with a what-if, what-if, what-if at this hour. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2005] Reference
I don't, you know -- this is sort of a "what-if" for you, a hypothetical here. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 20, 2008] Reference
O'BRIEN: The school might say in return, as you say, We live in a what-if world. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2003] Reference
One of these what-if scenarios we look at takes place in the city of Philadelphia. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 20, 2007] Reference
DAVID BOIM, RACHEL BOIM'S FATHER: The school administrators live in a what-if world. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2003] Reference
(END OF VIDEOTAPE) CHERNOFF: Keep in mind, the stress tests are only what-if scenarios. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 7, 2009] Reference
TITLEBAUM: Yes, you know, that ` s something that we call what-if and if-only fantasies. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 21, 2005] Reference
So I think it would not be wise to say here is what we are going to do on a what-if basis. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - CNN Late Edition: Will the Supreme Court Be the Final Stop for Campaign 2000? - December 10, 2000] Reference
It's hardly a wild what-if: it happened to tens of thousands of real people just like you. From Wordnik.com. [Johann Hari: "Hitler Appointed Me His Biographer": An Exclusive Interview With David Irving] Reference
But I don't really want to go into the what-if questions that might exist after that happens. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - CNN Late Edition: Will the Supreme Court Be the Final Stop for Campaign 2000? - December 10, 2000] Reference
I've played the what-if game many times, and its hard to imagine a way to have kept a working. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Directly Attacks Bill's Presidency, Blames It For Massive Dem Losses] Reference
"I don't know, it is very difficult when you get into these fields, a what-if, a hypothesis.". From Wordnik.com. [Johann Hari: "Hitler Appointed Me His Biographer": An Exclusive Interview With David Irving] Reference
You told us they're trying to prepare for that what-if that they hope certainly doesn't happen. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 12, 2008] Reference
Here is another "what-if" .... what if, Hillary was Bill Clinton's brother instead of his wife?. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Would Have Benefitted From Winner-Take-All Primaries] Reference
One of these what-if scenarios takes place on the West Coast with some bad weather in Sacramento. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 20, 2007] Reference
The networks hadn't even bothered to report the exit polls showing the what-if preference for Perot. From Wordnik.com. [Ross Reruns] Reference
He called the oil-demand projections "what-if" scenarios aimed at simply demonstrating the downside risks. From Wordnik.com. [IEA: Weak Recovery Poses Risk to World Oil Demand] Reference
THIS MONTH'S FAA inspection of older 737s for worn wiring was enough to give nervous fliers "" what-if '' nightmares. From Wordnik.com. [More Worries] Reference
The evangelical group focus on the family action defended its what-if letter as based on its analysis of Obama's record. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2008] Reference
It's the what-if thinking that takes hold like a tentacled sea monster and drags you down into the shapeless, sleepless dark. From Wordnik.com. [Obituary] Reference
It may also be a kind of hypothetical or contingency measure, a sort of what-if benefit that is thought to be worth almost any cost. From Wordnik.com. [When The Budget Is Colonized] Reference
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