best-case
adjective
: being, relating to, or based on a projection of future events that assumes only the best possible circumstances
a best-case scenario
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District officials project that three school years from now, there could be as few as 300,000 or, in a best-case scenario, as many as 334,000 students.
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Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 13 June 2025
For many council members, the budget is a best-case scenario amid a $245 million revenue shortfall that threatened worker cuts.
—Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 12 June 2025
But even that best-case scenario still placed Democrats 10 points underwater.
—Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 June 2025
These numbers are also a best-case scenario, not factoring in engineering works or leaves on the train line.
—Steve Price, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
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Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 13 June 2025
For many council members, the budget is a best-case scenario amid a $245 million revenue shortfall that threatened worker cuts.
—Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 12 June 2025
But even that best-case scenario still placed Democrats 10 points underwater.
—Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 June 2025
These numbers are also a best-case scenario, not factoring in engineering works or leaves on the train line.
—Steve Price, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for best-case
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“Best-case.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/best-case. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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