theoretical
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This is not theoretical, like the stock-market game they might have played as part of a personal-finance unit in high school or college.
From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026
The emergence of synthetic performers such as Tilly Norwood reflects how quickly those questions have moved from theoretical to practical.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
Hegseth and Trump were frustrated by his lack of progress in implementing shipbuilding reforms to create Trump’s so-called “Golden Fleet,” led by the theoretical new “Trump-class” battleships.
From Salon • May 1, 2026
Fed governor Michael Barr has said that stronger productivity growth could push the neutral rate of interest—the theoretical rate that neither stimulates nor restricts growth—higher, not lower.
From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026
In fourteenth-century Oxford, mathematically inclined philosophers had hypothesized that falling bodies accelerate continuously; but they had made no effort to confirm this theoretical possibility through experiment.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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