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Cochrane, 52, and Porter, 43, turned the breezy online exchange into a what-if conversation.
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John Branch, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Tax season always seems to start off with some kind of quirky, what-if component.
—Susan Tompor, The Enquirer, 12 June 2024
The game will launch with 31 different civilizations, letting players mix and match leaders from various eras to play out fun what-if scenarios.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
This may come in the form of a digital twin of the warehouse that performs what-if analyses of material flows and other systems and processes.
—Manoj Gujarathi, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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John Branch, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Tax season always seems to start off with some kind of quirky, what-if component.
—Susan Tompor, The Enquirer, 12 June 2024
The game will launch with 31 different civilizations, letting players mix and match leaders from various eras to play out fun what-if scenarios.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
This may come in the form of a digital twin of the warehouse that performs what-if analyses of material flows and other systems and processes.
—Manoj Gujarathi, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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“What-if.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/what-if. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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