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
• Moana 2 started off as a Disney+ series, until the powers that be realized that trading enormous box-office returns for theoretical streaming growth was ridiculous and reworked the project into a theatrical release.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2024
• For example: Pythagorean triples Many scholars have considered the list an exercise in pure, theoretical mathematics, perhaps even a problem set used for teaching students.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 3 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024