best-case

[ best-keys ]

adjective

1. being the best result that could be expected under the circumstances:

   The best-case scenario shows her winning the nomination easily.

Word History and Origins

Origin of best-case¹

First recorded in 1975–80

Example Sentences

In a best-case scenario they cover the mechanics of reproduction, STD awareness, and contraceptive use.

From The Daily Beast

Her best-case scenario is now worse than many of our personal Plan Zs.

From The Daily Beast

As a result, the vapor measurements Mahar obtained are likely the best-case scenario.

From The Daily Beast

But Schiff said this “has the feeling of a lawyerly kind of argument, to put the best case on a pretty strained legal theory.”

From The Daily Beast

For her part, Tolman assumed that the best-case scenario from all of this was that buzz would generate around her name.

From The Daily Beast

There is not one of these who, for the merest trifle, couldn't knock over the best case in the world.

From Project Gutenberg

I always suspicioned that if Huldyd spoke up and freed her mind, she might have made out the best case, but she wouldnt do it.

From Project Gutenberg

In the best case every revolution must be attended by this temporary chaos of the mores.

From Project Gutenberg

But perhaps the best case for comparison with the ruminants is that of the rhinoceroses.

From Project Gutenberg

In the best case, the minimum number for the year was thirty-seven, and the maximum, fifty.

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