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hypothetical
adjective as in guessed, assumed
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Speaking to BBC Radio 4's PM programme on Tuesday, Sir Brian said he was "not prepared to comment" on the government's "hypothetical" unpublished plans.
He compared this hypothetical world to Iain M. Banks’ sci-fi “Culture” novels, where abundance is so extreme that traditional economies disappear.
A stripped-down hypothetical can illustrate the point: Suppose a married couple has $100,000 in adjusted gross income, and now they want to switch $10,000 from a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA.
Lewis later said it had been a "hypothetical" question, and No 10 declined to comment.
Burnham then criticised journalists for speculating, saying he is "constantly answering hypothetical questions" and claimed MPs in Westminster were "constantly speculating and not putting forward solutions".
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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