hypothetically

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Recently, Marblehead settled on a plan that its voters could get behind: change the zoning codes at the Tedesco Country Club and golf course, where apartments could hypothetically be built, but likely won’t be.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

But even if that’s not the end of the brutal crypto selloff, Strategy “has the wherewithal to ride out a hypothetically much steeper Bitcoin rout,” TD Cowen analyst Lance Vitanza said in a note Friday.

From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026

Or, hypothetically, when a member of the U.S. military or the executive branch tries to make several years’ worth of salary by betting on whether a looming secret operation will succeed?

From Slate • Jan. 6, 2026

Literally none of it could even hypothetically be accomplished within that timeframe.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025

“And so . . . hypothetically, if these two people liked each other, what would it take to get the stupid guy to kiss the girl, huh?”

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan