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Recent Examples of hypothetical
Adjective
Last week, a poll of the hypothetical primary contest measured Donalds’ lead over Casey DeSantis at 19 percentage points when respondents were made aware of Trump’s endorsement preference. David Catanese, Miami Herald, 14 May 2025 For example, children tend to think concretely and may struggle more than adults with abstract concepts like justice or hypothetical scenarios. Jonathan B. Santo, The Conversation, 12 May 2025 As the hypothetical solar storm worsened, the exercise participants quickly became overwhelmed with information. Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 9 May 2025 Despite challenges like legacy data integration and security, digital twins promise significant operational advantages by making hypothetical scenarios feel immediate and actionable. Murugan Lakshmanan, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for hypothetical
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hypothetical
Noun
  • Administrators can begin by: • Auditing their systems for accessibility barriers, including the assumption that students must meet traditional admissions criteria.
    Nicole Kim, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
  • The assumption was that the Trump Administration will not care.
    Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 21 May 2025
Adjective
  • Biden's attorney jumped in to clarify that Hur's team had asked a speculative question that did not reflect Biden's initial answer.
    Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 18 May 2025
  • Any financial instruments mentioned herein are speculative in nature and may involve risk to principal and interest.
    Katie Stockton, CNBC, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • Russian sources, however, have suggested a third theory: that Portnov might have held compromising material on current Ukrainian officials.
    Katya Soldak, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
  • The chance encounter turned out to be a first-of-its-kind sighting — and confirmation of an expert theory.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 23 May 2025
Adjective
  • For stock market investors, the equity risk premium is the theoretical excess return of stocks over risk-free assets to account for market risk.
    , CNBC, 19 May 2025
  • Think of the 60 plus percentage rates advertised in the press as the ceiling or the theoretical maximum reimbursement rates.
    Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • For this storm, my immediate hypothesis was related to dry conditions and outflow boundaries racing northward from thunderstorms to the south.
    Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • According to one popular hypothesis, the pot had eventually boiled over: after eons of frustrated heating, some 800 million years ago, the planet’s outer shell buckled, and Venus’s entire surface was paved over with immense outpourings of fresh lava.
    Elise Cutts, Scientific American, 13 May 2025

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