How to Use theoretical in a Sentence

theoretical

adjective

• The idea is purely theoretical at this point.
• The danger is more than just a theoretical possibility.
• On a theoretical level, hiring more people seems logical.
• That’s all in the realm of the theoretical, though, a question for down the road.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Aug. 2022
• This is the type of theoretical physics that Dr. Katie Mack thinks about a lot.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
• But in this case, the loss of jobs isn’t just theoretical.
  — Bysteve Mollman, Fortune, 25 Feb. 2023
• Now the county will need to move from the theoretical to the concrete.
  — Chicago Tribune, 1 July 2022
• There might not be a theoretical limit to the height from which a cat can fall and survive.
  — The Atlantic Science Desk, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2022
• Warp drives have been a dream of sci-fi nerds and theoretical physicists alike for decades now.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 9 May 2023
• The worst thing about wall beds is the theoretical risk of the beds falling and injuring people.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 8 Oct. 2022
• The last stage of dying in the hospice handbook will no longer be theoretical.
  — Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 16 June 2022
• But this quandary is still possible to explore, at least in the field of theoretical physics.
  — Daniel Stone, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022
• There is no perfect answer, and any method is—at least in the theoretical sense—just as good as any other.
  — Matt Ford, Ars Technica, 22 June 2022
• So these are these weird theoretical bridges shortcuts in space and time.
  — Tulika Bose, Scientific American, 19 Aug. 2022
• The twists had been expected based on theoretical work from Schweitzer and Polyakov.
  — Charlie Wood, WIRED, 14 Apr. 2024
• This theoretical version of our watery world is known as the geoid.
  — Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
• What began as a theoretical conversation over drinks took hold of the pair, who decided to put the idea to the test.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2024
• Today’s North-South got to six spades, missing the best theoretical spot of seven clubs.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2024
• While 6 GHz has the same theoretical top speed as 5 GHz, the former offers much wider bandwidth.
  — Simon Hill, WIRED, 2 Nov. 2024
• And Quinn didn’t want this exercise to be simply theoretical, which led him to ask: Now what?
  — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2022
• This question has to be theoretical right now, as the hardest insight to glean from these practices is what the defense will look like.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 7 June 2022
• The story follows the theoretical physicist who led the development of the atomic bomb that helped to end World War II.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 3 Sep. 2023
• The Colts have a coach in Shane Steichen and a quarterback in Richardson who, while still proving themselves, present all the theoretical upside in the world.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Jan. 2024
• And the war in Ukraine feels a little bit more far away, more distant, more uncertain, maybe more theoretical.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2023
• So the story of a father and a daughter has become far less theoretical.
  — Samuel D. Hunter, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2022
• Any idea without the votes to pass is nothing more than a theoretical notion.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2022
• The approach was promising, but theoretical, and impossible to carry out with the tech of the time.
  — Quanta Magazine, 4 Feb. 2022
• Right now the prospect of a third-party candidate is just theoretical.
  — Chuck Todd, NBC News, 3 Apr. 2023
• As a professor of entrepreneurship and the former dean of a business school that went through the process of determining impact, my interest in these questions is more than just theoretical.
  — Andrew Gaudes, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2024
• There is a theoretical solution to this problem: a flu vaccine that protects against all strains of flu, helping the body’s immune system identify parts of the virus that are consistent from season to season and from strain to strain.
  — Maggie Fox, Scientific American, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Nov 2024