How to Use hypothetical in a Sentence

hypothetical

adjective

• She described a hypothetical case to clarify her point.
• The confusion about the start of the year is related to a hypothetical situation discussed in court.
  — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 6 Aug. 2024
• Or if Bankman-Fried had sought to mislead a hypothetical board, would competent directors have seen through the ruse?
  — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2022
• That may change in the future, but such capabilities will be based on hypothetical technology that does not yet exist.
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 14 Aug. 2024
• Visit the #topic-of-the-week channel to discuss issues like democracy in space and the hypothetical Planet 9.
  — WIRED, 19 Nov. 2022
• Basically, the idea is that it’s not the federal courts’ job to answer hypothetical questions or resolve policy disputes.
  — Steve Vladeck, CNN, 12 Nov. 2022
• Then come the hypothetical roofs, the might-have-been roofs, the roofs that are no more.
  — By Michael Browning, miamiherald, 25 Aug. 2015
• The judge based the amount of the award on a hypothetical license fee that the party might have paid to use the song.
  — NBC News, 25 Oct. 2017
• Of course, the hypothetical does not come out of nowhere.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 10 Aug. 2017
• Like the hypothetical beer case, this case against Walmart mocks the rule of law.
  — Michael I. Krauss, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2020
• But in that hypothetical world, the math wasn’t adding up.
  — Joanne Solomon, Longreads, 1 July 2017
• That’s the big hypothetical, though: whether this was a move the Indians had to make.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 31 July 2019
• But this grand alignment of the aggrieved has been moving from the realm of the hypothetical...
  — Graham T. Allison and, WSJ, 29 Jan. 2019
• At some hypothetical point, the drama around the show will be drowned out by the show itself.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 1 Feb. 2017
• The romance is all still hypothetical; the sheer joy is not.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• Of course, the string of reasons behind the mass deaths is all still hypothetical.
  — Popular Science, 18 Sep. 2020
• To be sure, this is all hypothetical for the time being.
  — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 18 Aug. 2020
• What isn’t clear is how much this risk is hypothetical rather than proven, or what the United States should do about it.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023
• The risk is hypothetical, and Merck says it has not been borne out in its studies.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 24 Dec. 2021
• That is, and will be, one of the great hypothetical questions of this election cycle.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2023
• Maybe that’s not the best hypothetical question to pose.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 1 Aug. 2023
• According to the Times poll, Biden and Trump are tied in a hypothetical rematch at forty-three per cent.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2023
• The big question: Where to put these hypothetical new schools?
  — Juliette Mavroleon, miamiherald, 17 June 2018
• So the value of the options is more hypothetical than real at this point.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 10 July 2020
• Trump comes out on top of a hypothetical one-on-one matchup with DeSantis 51% to 38% too.
  — Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 21 Apr. 2023
• The worry, though hypothetical, is one that should not be dismissed out of hand.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2018
• Justice garnered the support of 52% of those surveyed in the poll, while Manchin had support from 42% in the hypothetical matchup between the two.
  — Julie Tsirkin, NBC News, 15 Feb. 2023
• For his firm, a hypothetical outright ban on TikTok would result in the loss of about a third of his firm’s revenue.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2023
• The hope is that more complete postcranial bones dating back even further in time, closer to the hypothetical emergence of H. erectus on the island, will turn up to paint a more detailed picture of how the hobbit came to be.
  — Jeanna Bryner, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2024
• But the discussions between the two sides, which have not been previously reported, indicate that the latest pursuit by the league and team owners of an 18-game season has moved beyond the hypothetical stage.
  — Mark Maske, Washington Post, 23 July 2024

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2024