hypothetic
Example Sentences
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In a recent article for Foreign Policy, Stephen Walt imagined a hypothetic scenario in which the U.S. announced military action to punish Brazil for the deforestation of the Amazon.
From Slate ● Aug. 23, 2019
My sorry dreams of love synthetic Will never not be hypothetic, And people call me misanthropic, Whenever I bring up this topic.
From Slate ● May 3, 2018
Then in one of many tonal shifts, she raises her voice, irritated at the audience’s hypothetic gratitude: “But I made you tense!”
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2018
It would be idle to dwell further on the hypothetic illustrations regarding this supposed operation of climate, which the observation of every unprejudiced traveller can impugn.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
These two main factors are consequently to be assumed in all hypothetic conceptions of previous mutative periods.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
