hypothetically

hypothetical | American Dictionary

hypothetical
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˌhɑɪ·pəˈθet̬·ɪ·kəl/
of or based on a hypothesis:
He dismissed the questions as purely hypothetical.

hypothetically

adverbus/ˌhɑɪ·pəˈθet̬·ɪk·li/
Any electronic voting system is hypothetically hackable.

hypothetical | Business English

hypothetical
adjective
uk /ˌhaɪpəˈθetɪkəl/us
imagined or suggested, but perhaps not true or really happening:
Total return will be based on a hypothetical $1,000 investment.

Examples of hypothetical

hypothetical
Actual players may want actual not hypothetical compensation to those made use of by trade.
The possibility, however, turns out to be purely hypothetical.
To begin with the first, it is not clear that hypothetical consent removes the need for actual consent when actual consent can be sought.
Let us turn now to the analysis of government formation in this hypothetical set of legislatures.
Moreover, and more damagingly, he has established no grounds for preferring the hypothetical insurance scheme to the talent auction.
As a policy argument, however, this kind of argument from hypotheticals falls victim to the difficulties described in the previous subsection.
Embarrassed for our discipline in that hypothetical world, we decided to write the article.
The judicial system establishes in its rules a series of juridical consequences in the event that certain hypothetical events occur.
The question is how representative the snapshot is of a hypothetical series for which it is the only sample.
We did not find an association between the types of insurers represented and respondents' decision to cover the technologies presented in hypothetical scenarios.
In the first case the composer seems to connect many of the electronic timbres with hypothetical acoustic instruments.
Consider another hypothetical world in which many but not all parents of cloned children undermine their self-esteem.
It is also important to emphasize that the utilities estimated for the hypothetical programs are not all statistically different.
For a range of hypothetical breast cancer programs, relative utilities and corresponding willingness-to-pay estimates were derived.
Beyond these hypothetical examples, some real-world systems of government have produced results of the form of (i) and (ii).
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