How to Use hypothetical in a Sentence

hypothetical

adjective

• She described a hypothetical case to clarify her point.
• That said, for Lowe, long lines are only a hypothetical problem.
  — Camila Domonoske, NPR, 22 Nov. 2024
• These aren’t hypothetical questions for a distant future.
  — Kelly Clancy, Wired, 10 Jan. 2022
• Fiesler, the Colorado professor, offered a hypothetical scenario of a student pulling a fire alarm to skip an exam.
  — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021
• Here are their final roster projections, plus a hypothetical Russian team.
  — Scott Wheeler, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
• Zoom in: In this hypothetical case, recycling cuts new mine development needs by 40% for copper (see above) and cobalt.
  — Ben Geman, Axios, 19 Nov. 2024
• So this second scenario’s hypothetical but can still be helpful to walk through the details of the UFC’s champion’s clause.
  — Paul Gift, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
• Desantis is in second place with 18% and Pence comes in third with 13% support in the hypothetical primary.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Dec. 2021
• Hispanic men were solidly behind Trump, while Hispanic women were more likely to back Biden in the hypothetical matchup, the poll showed.
  — Timothy Nerozzi, Fox News, 9 Dec. 2021
• Then come the hypothetical roofs, the might-have-been roofs, the roofs that are no more.
  — By Michael Browning, miamiherald, 25 Aug. 2015
• The judge based the amount of the award on a hypothetical license fee that the party might have paid to use the song.
  — NBC News, 25 Oct. 2017
• Take, for instance, a hypothetical boutique consulting firm that develops a highly effective process for onboarding clients.
  — Rhea Wessel, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
• Of course, the hypothetical does not come out of nowhere.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 10 Aug. 2017
• Like the hypothetical beer case, this case against Walmart mocks the rule of law.
  — Michael I. Krauss, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2020
• But in that hypothetical world, the math wasn’t adding up.
  — Joanne Solomon, Longreads, 1 July 2017
• That’s the big hypothetical, though: whether this was a move the Indians had to make.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 31 July 2019
• But this grand alignment of the aggrieved has been moving from the realm of the hypothetical...
  — Graham T. Allison and, WSJ, 29 Jan. 2019
• At some hypothetical point, the drama around the show will be drowned out by the show itself.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 1 Feb. 2017
• The romance is all still hypothetical; the sheer joy is not.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• Like so much else in the world of AI, many of the concerns about these replicas are still hypothetical.
  — Kate Lindsay, The Atlantic, 31 July 2024
• Of course, the string of reasons behind the mass deaths is all still hypothetical.
  — Popular Science, 18 Sep. 2020
• To be sure, this is all hypothetical for the time being.
  — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 18 Aug. 2020
• What isn’t clear is how much this risk is hypothetical rather than proven, or what the United States should do about it.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023
• The risk is hypothetical, and Merck says it has not been borne out in its studies.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 24 Dec. 2021
• That is, and will be, one of the great hypothetical questions of this election cycle.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2023
• Maybe that’s not the best hypothetical question to pose.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 1 Aug. 2023
• The team says that their hypothetical moon, dubbed Chrysalis, could be the cause, per New Scientist.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Sep. 2022
• According to the Times poll, Biden and Trump are tied in a hypothetical rematch at forty-three per cent.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2023
• The big question: Where to put these hypothetical new schools?
  — Juliette Mavroleon, miamiherald, 17 June 2018
• So the value of the options is more hypothetical than real at this point.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 10 July 2020

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024