How to Use best-case in a Sentence

best-case

adjective
  • What is a best-case scenario for the Bears in free agency?
    — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025
  • But even in a best-case scenario, the whole thing was awkward and weird.
    — Chad Graff, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
  • But best-case scenarios rarely come to pass in the NFL.
    — Howard Megdal, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
  • What’s best-case scenario for the Chiefs in Thursday night’s first round?
    — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 24 Apr. 2025
  • The results cheered Wall Street bulls who called it a best-case scenario.
    — Angel Adegbesan, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2023
  • And given Phoenix’s need for size, this might be a best-case scenario.
    — Sarah Jean Maher, New York Times, 25 June 2025
  • In a best-case scenario, how many innings would Shohei Ohtani be able to pitch in a start by the end of the season?
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2025
  • 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
  • The Thunder achieved a best-case scenario in Sunday’s win, as none of the starters had to eclispe 36 minutes.
    — Shane Young, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • 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
  • The Sale example is helpful here, and not just as a best-case scenario.
    — Grant Brisbee, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
  • In a best-case scenario, Friedl could return to next week against the St. Louis Cardinals.
    — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 16 May 2023
  • In a best-case scenario, a brand of healthy pressure will emerge that helps both be at their best — this season and in the future.
    — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2025
  • In a best-case scenario, its trade deadline will reflect that.
    — Murat Ates, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Perhaps their best-case scenario would be to leave the camps and move to a future Palestinian state.
    — Jawad Rizkallah, NPR, 10 Feb. 2025
  • In that best-case scenario, Feather sees Chewy rising as much as 73%.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 25 June 2025
  • And since this is all about best-case scenarios, man, the best-case scenario for Mike Trout is still pretty damn good.
    — Tim Britton, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Asked to describe a best-case scenario, Conrad talks about making good time on the highway.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 16 July 2025
  • This best-case scenario still features the play-in tournament.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
  • But there are no guarantees for any such best-case scenario coming to pass.
    — Niall Stanage, The Hill, 2 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • 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

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