theoretically

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Marketed with the tagline “What if your pet could call you whenever they needed attention?,” the PetPhone allows owners to ring their pets and, theoretically, vice versa.

From Slate • Jun. 20, 2026

But the extra income makes purchasing rights to show the World Cup more valuable to broadcasters, meaning Fifa can theoretically charge higher prices when negotiating over future tournaments.

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2026

According to people familiar with the matter, Liang has recently promised investors that his lab would continue to pursue artificial general intelligence—which can theoretically match or beat human thinking—and develop open-source technology.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 16, 2026

The star begins collapsing under its own weight, theoretically continuing until all of its mass is compressed into a single point known as a singularity.

From Science Daily • Jun. 14, 2026

When this happens, enharmonically spelled notes, scales, intervals, and chords, may not only be theoretically different.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones