hypothetically

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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

A double-leveraged rare-earth ETF, which hypothetically might benefit from economic development in Greenland, can go up 63% in a day and 100% in a week:

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 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

That scenario, hypothetically, is just one way we could know that a war with Russia had begun, or was about to.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2025

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