Sentence examples for Hypothetically from inspiring English sources

The word "hypothetically" is correct and usable in written English
It is used to indicate a range of possible or imagined scenarios, or to indicate that something is being suggested for the sake of argument. For example, "Hypothetically, if I had enough money, I would travel around the world."

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Hypothetically

adverb

In a hypothetical way; as a hypothesis.

  • He offered the proposition hypothetically.

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Hypothetically speaking, the chocolate cake will last for up to a week, but I doubt it'll be around that long.

On these shores, rumours suggest that were Simon Rattle to be thinking about possibly running the London Symphony Orchestra, he would, hypothetically, in an ideal world where everything's putatively perfect, demand, or rather catalyse, the construction of a new concert hall somewhere, somehow, in all probability in the City of London.

Often the CDO is synthetic, ie, only hypothetically backed by loans, and the insurer pays out cash as companies default.The equity tranche is fondly referred to as the "toxic waste", which banks often cannot sell and must keep on their books.

To put things less hypothetically, most lawmakers might find that their assessments of the merits of the case, and of the president's convincingness, do not proceed in an airy sunlit realm of pure reason, but are instead influenced by partisan affiliations.

If, hypothetically, that does not happen, insiders at the RBI accept that trend growth could be significantly lower.

As a pair of American scholars, David Schenker and Christina Lin, write in the Los Angeles Times, Although an Islamist Egypt beset by insecurity and a failing economy might seem of little value to the Chinese, upgraded ties with the troubled nation would provide China with a foothold on the Mediterranean, and include, hypothetically, a port.

Or would it not bode well if the bureaucratic capital of a political block of 27 countries seceded from a hypothetically independent Flanders over a matter as trivial as linguistic differences?Alexander Cabot Santa Barbara, CaliforniaSIR – If Belgium were to break apart, why should Brussels be limited to joining Flanders or Wallonia?

And if he hypothetically scrapped all industrial exemptions (also unimaginable), the average bill would still fall only a little.Cost is not the only problem with the Energiewende.

Andrew Odlyzko, a telecoms guru, once did a survey in which he asked people to choose, hypothetically, between having either e-mail or the entire content of the world wide web: 95% chose e-mail.This has several implications.

GUEST BLOGGER | Bryan CaplanPurely hypothetically, suppose you've written a pretty successful book published by Princeton University Press, and been favorably profiled in The New York Times Magazine and The Economist.

They do not seek to make a profit, even hypothetically.

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