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hypothetically

[hahy-puh-thet-i-klee] / ˌhaɪ pəˈθɛt ɪ kli /
ADVERB
conditionally
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ADVERB
on paper
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ADVERB
theoretically
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Antonyms
WEAK
by trial and error


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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

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

I’d been speaking hypothetically about moving to New York a year early.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls




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