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in theory | American Dictionary

in theory

idiom
possibly:
They could, in theory, have been paid twice if someone hadn’t caught the error.

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in theory
Intheory, village development plans flow up through district and regional development committees to the central government.
From being purely historical and documentary, they are now turning towards an interest intheory.
At the same time, this new technology replaced other medical devices and could thereby create savings, at least intheory.
Unlike legislative bodies, courts are not directly accountable to voters, and at least intheory, they are not influenced by public opinion.
Intheory, a free market would cope with this by raising prices to a point where demand diminished to match supply.
For populations from different continents to share even 'one migrant per generation', gene flow among populations should intheory be high.
Intheory any level of environmental improvement or spending can be achieved by manipulating property rights or tightening environmental standards.
Although intheory such technology exists, its application will demand fundamental changes in our technologies and material components of electronic devices.
Intheory this could cause multicollinearity problems, if any variable can be expressed as a function of other variables.
Moving the old stack's contents can, intheory, be achieved by adjusting the virtual-to-physical address translation tables.
Potential members may intheory assume that their action is irrelevant to group viability and consequently (safely) free-ride.
Intheory, monetary policies can be discussed in terms of a single criterion, such as an optimal currency area or a winning election strategy.
Alternatively, since there is no overlap between the houses, they could intheory be contemporaneous.
Intheory, fully diversified wholesalers, paying in gold, do solve the coordination problem.
Though intheory contracts were concluded between parties of equal standing, such was not always the case in practice.
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