How to Use hypothetically in a Sentence

hypothetically

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• For some of us, five years is a long time to hold on to the same car—even hypothetically.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 9 Apr. 2021
• Even a bunch of bugs squashed onto the plane could mess things up, hypothetically.
  — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 28 Sep. 2020
• What would happen, hypothetically, if a black hole appeared out of nowhere next to Earth?
  — Kevin Pimbblet, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2022
• And Johnson has not yet passed the CR with Democratic votes, and hypothetically could change course.
  — The Editors, National Review, 14 Nov. 2023
• The Jedi task had a rat hypothetically move an object to a location in its mind.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2023
• The problem is that hypothetically, even if inflation were to come down to 7% or 6% year-over-year, the Fed's inflation target is still around 2%, Cronk notes.
  — Anne Sraders, Fortune, 22 July 2022
• If my partner and I were hypothetically members of the world’s ultra-wealthy one per cent, our newborn would be immune to the apocalypse, right?
  — The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2021
• Steps can be hard to define—a leisurely stroll or a run would hypothetically both count, Brandt said—but walking to increase step count can be a useful tool to improve health.
  — Julia Landwehr, Health, 9 Aug. 2023
• Even if, hypothetically, a LIV player wanted to enter a hometown event, there is no memo or directive from the Tour on how to handle that.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Dec. 2023
• And while that does give the team more time to hypothetically correct, history has shown that's unlikely to happen.
  — Megan Ryan, Star Tribune, 10 May 2021
• Stephens and the Democrats could in turn, hypothetically, convince one additional Republican to join them to pass a map if talks break down.
  — cleveland, 12 Sep. 2023
• But hypothetically, Schoen still then could trade into the back of the first round or use his early second-round pick on a quarterback who could sit and develop for a year behind Jones.
  — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 30 Jan. 2024
• So as a team above the first apron, the Heat could not hypothetically trade Herro and his $29 million salary for a player earning $31 million — something that would have been permitted under the old rules.
  — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 9 May 2024
• Considering the strength of Amelia and Link’s partnership for much of this season, fans should hypothetically be enraged by this split.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 7 June 2021
• The next step is to actually crunch the numbers, and then to grapple with the moral implications of a hypothetically conscious universe.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 5 Apr. 2022
• Wembanyama would hypothetically slot next to Smith, giving the team the NBA's most enviable defensive pairing in the front court.
  — Rahat Huq, Chron, 12 Sep. 2022
• In this way, Dancing for the Devil could hypothetically never end.
  — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 12 June 2024
• The researchers think the combination of both could mean not just a few microbial life forms but, at least hypothetically, a planet alive with organisms.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2024
• And the trash from their buildings, when taken out, should, hypothetically, be containerized.
  — Curbed, 31 Aug. 2022
• Left to its own devices, the virus could hypothetically bridle itself.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 28 June 2021
• Say hypothetically, there is a working mother who can focus on one class in five weeks — get that knocked out, focus on another class and another class.
  — Debbie Truong, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2023
• Matchups like this are rare because hypothetically a program like MSJ has everything lose and nothing to gain beating some public school.
  — Timothy Dashiell, Baltimore Sun, 2 Jan. 2024
• There are hypothetically 200 state budgets to come before that point.
  — Alan J. Borsuk, Journal Sentinel, 17 July 2023
• But hypothetically, if everyone would’ve ended up in Columbus, this class gives the program a more ideal class in terms of overall numbers with 25 commits.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 22 Dec. 2022
• Another class of object that the dusty blobs could hypothetically be—but are not—is a compact planetary nebula or CPN.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 4 July 2024
• Thus hypothetically, New York State could again freeze her assets and notify any victims.
  — Town & Country, 30 June 2023
• Ugh, but at least this code is comprehensible to its designers—who could, hypothetically, adapt or dispense with it.
  — Maya Singer, Vogue, 12 July 2023
• Melted, that would be enough to hypothetically drape almost 5 inches of water across the entire state of California.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2023
• This could hypothetically give him a chance to capitalize on the momentum of the presidential election to elect a parliament aligned with his agenda.
  — Garret Martin, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2022
• Franke was speaking hypothetically, putting herself in the position of a person who is harboring a secret.
  — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 1 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024