How to Use worst-case in a Sentence

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• Far Cry 5 was a sort of worst-case scenario for the Arc B570.
  — PCMAG, 25 Jan. 2025
• But steps can be taken to avert this worst-case scenario.
  — Agnès Callamard, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2024
• Here’s a look at the best- and worst-case scenarios for SMU and a win-loss prediction for the season.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 28 Aug. 2023
• This worst-case scenario needs to be addressed but will not happen soon.
  — Bhopi Dhall and Saurajit Kanungo, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• This was also slightly less than its worst-case scenario that put it at a loss of as much as $1.15 per share.
  — Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 18 Apr. 2024
• And, in the event of a worst-case scenario, Sueann insisted on getting life preservers.
  — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 12 Oct. 2024
• But Canales’s worst-case scenarios also have come true, at least for the time being.
  — Sam Lubell, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
• The problem was his two-inning start put the Guardians on a collision course with their worst-case scenario.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 29 Aug. 2023
• Not everyone is buying into the idea of a worst-case scenario.
  — Rebekah Evans, theweek, 5 Aug. 2024
• But experts have warned that, in a worst-case scenario, the transition of power could be thrown into chaos.
  — Phoebe Petrovic, ProPublica, 30 Oct. 2024
• Here are ways for people to prepare and respond in worst-case scenarios.
  — Hannah Sampson, Andrea Sachs and Sofia Andrade, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Aug. 2023
• And our imaginations are liable to fill in the blanks with worst-case scenarios.
  — Michael Flannery, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
• In a worst-case scenario, economists fear these policies could set the stage for a recession.
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
• The happy ending was a welcome change of pace for deputies who often deal with worst-case scenarios.
  — Jade Thomas, The Indianapolis Star, 6 May 2024
• Sanders himself later downplayed that risk as a worst-case scenario.
  — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
• In a worst-case scenario, a hacker could take control of a CAV with passengers onboard.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Jan. 2024
• While most cities use the base case or status quo to budget, many also use a parallel worst-case scenario.
  — Michael D. Belsky, Chicago Tribune, 19 Nov. 2024
• Some may question whether all the preparation was worth it, given that a worst-case scenario didn’t hit L.A., Crowley said.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
• The fire spread over 50 kilometers that day, more than doubling worst-case scenarios.
  — David Wallace-Wells, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• But there is a small chance a thunderstorm could emerge directly over a burn scar — a worst-case scenario that could cause problems.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
• And for this new hash table, the time required for worst-case queries and insertions is proportional to (log x)2 — far faster than x.
  — Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 10 Feb. 2025
• This was about salvaging what was left of USC’s season, and in that sense, the Trojans have at least protected themselves from a worst-case scenario.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2024
• Think of this as your worst-case scenario for what might happen during Thanksgiving.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
• But even in that worst-case scenario, Trump will still be a billionaire, albeit a diminished one.
  — Byjason Ma, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2024
• Here’s a worst-case scenario for that defensive approach.
  — Ben Standig, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
• That hope is built in part on traders’ belief that Trump probably would be turned off by the damage Wall Street would take if a worst-case, long-term trade war were to occur.
  — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2025
• But even if that worst-case scenario isn’t likely to happen, the thought of losing any closeness can be terrible.
  — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2024
• What, then, would be a worst-case scenario in your view—maybe a retrograde comet coming straight at us out of the sun’s glare, giving us only days to respond?
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2024
• In a worst-case scenario, the Macdonalds would shelter in the elevator.
  — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
• Cut Off: As hundreds of homes outside the boundaries of Scottsdale, Ariz., can no longer get water from the city, their owners are living a worst-case scenario of drought.
  — Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 6 Mar 2025