hypothetically

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Today, Amazon still has its “two-pizza teams,” but, hypothetically, a 16-person, two-pizza team might be broken up into two smaller cross-functional pods of eight, each focused on a specific project, according to Singh.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

If there was hypothetically a Lions tour this summer, he is going on it.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 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

Copernicus presents his ideas hypothetically; Galileo says he has confirmed them with his telescope; and Kepler whispers in his ear, saying, ‘If only you could confirm it by flying there!’

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton