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How to use the word Hypothetical in a Sentence?

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I have difficulty with that hypothetical.

Elena Kagan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think that is different, i have difficulty with that hypothetical.

Elena Kagan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Yeah, I probably won't vote for it, but I, there's no text. So you know, this is all hypothetical.

Josh Hawley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When confronted with a terrible hypothetical that would put them in the shoes of the Ukrainians, Americans say they would stand and fight rather than seek safety in another country.

Quinnipiac University

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Don’t sublimate your own freedom and desires in order to satisfy the invisible judgments of others against hypothetical wrongdoings.

Lisa Haisha

added by lisa.haisha
2 years ago

President Trump and Sen. Rubio have too many real problems for me to focus on hypothetical ones.

Eric Trump

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Alabama's proposal would turn the VRA into a race-blind statute that only looks into what this hypothetical race-blind process would produce, and so the consequence would be just substantially less minority representation in America.

Nicholas Stephanopoulos

Found on CNN
2 years ago

‘specter’ of something purely hypothetical plainly does not warrant an adjournment.

Jesse M. Furman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

‘Did you kill Susan Berman?’ is strictly a hypothetical, i did not kill Susan Berman. But if I had, I would lie about it.

Robert Durst

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Biden is the best president our country has had in a while, not because he's doing a good thing, but he's showing what it looks like on the far left, it's no longer hypothetical for us to now understand what defund the police is, what inflation looks like.

Burgess Owens

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Had we won that game, I'm not a big hypothetical guy, but maybe the desire is a little bit different if you're looking at [a] silver lining.

Tom Brady

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

At that point in history, the reality of Brexit was more hypothetical than tangible but also by far the biggest issue voters thought the country was facing.

Tim Bale

Found on CNN
2 years ago

'Did you kill Susan Berman?' is strictly a hypothetical, i did not kill Susan Berman. But if I had, I would lie about it.

Robert Durst

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

For these reasons, I am satisfied that the applicant’s case is capable of establishing that a real risk of prejudice to the due administration of justice...would be evident to the hypothetical ordinary reasonable reader from the content of the impugned publications.

John Dixon

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Especially in counties that don't have as many reserves, it's getting late in the game to recruit but that's why we're still doing this, there could be an outbreak in a city and we could lose a lot of workers. That's just hypothetical but with this election you kind of have to prepare for anything, especially with this year. We're just making sure we have enough.

Noah Grant

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It could be that the rolling motion hides some subtle aspects about the health of this sperm or how well it can travel quickly, these are all very hypothetical questions. What we hope is that more scientist and fertility experts will become interested and ask,' OK, how does this influence infertility ?'.

Hermes Gadelha

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I view it as sort of a hypothetical risk, so yes, I'm careful, I'll wash my hands, but I don't sort of regard it as glowing radioactively with virus.

Jamie Lloyd-Smith

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It's not just the ventilator, in a hypothetical situation, we could have plenty of ventilators : enough for every single person. But if you don't have the staff to look after the patient and to look after the ventilator, it doesn't matter how many ventilators you've got.

Alison Pittard

Found on CNN
4 years ago

There is data from basic science studies that have shown that Covid-19 itself binds to a protein at the surface of cells called ACE2, there is a hypothetical risk that giving NSAIDs like ibuprofen could increase levels of ACE2 shown in animal models, but not in patients.

Rupert Beale

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Taxpayers also wouldn't notice any difference right now. They would only notice a difference relative to this hypothetical world in which the tax cuts were allowed to expire.

Kyle Pomerleau

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Lets consider a hypothetical, lets assume that President Obama had been told by President Obama advisors that it really is important to send lethal weapons to the Ukraine. But then President Obama gets a call from President Obama pollster and President Obama political adviser, who says we know its in the national interest to send lethal weapons to the Ukraine, but were telling you that the left-wing of your party is really going to give you a hard time if you start selling lethal weaponsand potentially get into a lethal war with Russia. Would anybody here suggest that is impeachable ?

Alan Dershowitz

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Lets consider a hypothetical, lets assume that President Obama had been told by his advisors that it really is important to send lethal weapons to the Ukraine. But then he gets a call from his pollster and his political adviser, who says we know its in the national interest to send lethal weapons to the Ukraine, but were telling you that the left-wing of your party is really going to give you a hard time if you start selling lethal weaponsand potentially get into a lethal war with Russia. Would anybody here suggest that is impeachable?

Alan Dershowitz

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We don't comment on the business of other tours, real or hypothetical. We're focused on our business.

The PGA Tour

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

North Korea could, in a hypothetical future in which sanctions are relaxed, become a significant destination for foreign investment, to do so, however the government would need to gain the trust of international investors.

Peter Ward

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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