Sentence examples for hypothetical name from inspiring English sources

Just for fun, when my turn came I offered an absurd hypothetical name for the drug Plotnase, which sounds like something designed to make a person sink into the mud.

When a relative is in a position of influence in a particular organisation, dear little son/nephew Johnny (hypothetical name) will get put above another person, even if that person is smarter and better suited to the job.

In turn, the emergence of a hypothetical name-longevity relationship in elite athletes emphasizes the need for greater replication in this area of research.

Although we cannot exclude that some hypothetical names may evoke unintended connotations in some participants, we suggest that such connotations would be much stronger in the case of real names.

In both cases, we created realistic but hypothetical names for both the drugs, and in the case of cancer the ailment, so as to avoid recognition bias on the part of respondents.

It doesn't take an experienced branding person to figure out that the hypothetical iTablet name that was floating around pre-announcement would not be the name of the new device.

After J. K. Rowling admitted that she, and not a military veteran named "Robert Galbraith," wrote the new mystery novel "The Cuckoo's Calling," The New York Times asked several writers to choose a hypothetical pen name and describe what kind of book they might write under — or perhaps behind — that name.

Suppose a hypothetical player named Joe Coin had a 50-50 chance of getting at least one hit per game, and suppose that he played 154 games during the 1941 season.