hypothetical
The company’s quick decision could hypothetically open it up to legal action.
One intelligence official would speak only hypothetically about companies that want to launder money.
Hypothetically, partisan election judges could allow in voters from their own party while barring others.

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Examples of hypothetically

hypothetically
Hypothetically, one single infectious virus particle entrapped within a biofilm can lead to infection after ingestion of the eroded or sloughed part of the biofilm.
Hypothetically one could suggest that the borders of t-haplotypes might coincide with double-strand break hotspots.
Therefore, the tapeworms studied could hypothetically belong to different species.
Hypothetically, the study of foreign models need not prevent a country from adopting a coherent regime of welfare policies.
Individuals moved about in the city, and their range of political action, at least hypothetically, went beyond that of a particular site.
The first is that, if the observed violations do not contradict the hypothetically computed function, then the empirical biases concern only the algorithmic level.
The hypothetically related then of youth policy must be broken down into many ' 'thens' ', each representing parochial objectives of many organizational units and sub-units.
Several factor analyses were performed, rotating varying numbers of "factors" to hypothetically orthogonal structures, seeking solutions that made intuitive sense.
Hypothetically, these difficulties would be interwoven and augmented with the effects of an unstable environment during the early development of cognitive functions.
Hypothetically it can be argued that infant mortality among their children was similar to infant mortality among legitimate children living under similar social and economic conditions.
At first glance the appearance of these pages might give the impression of a non-explainable complexity, but it can be, at least hypothetically, put into a differentiated order.
Consider, hypothetically, a philanthropist and a misanthrope.
Hypothetically, any number of stories could be recollected and articulated by victims and perpetrators of political violence, and all could appear to be equally plausible versions of the past.
Hypothetically, soybeans with high saturate percentages should perform better at a relatively high temperature because their membranes would be more fluid, and they might be too rigid at low temperatures.
As will be shown, several of the hypothetically relevant variables dropped out from this final model including three of the sociodemographic conditions - age, gender, and marital status.
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