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How to use the word theoretically in a Sentence? Page #2

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Theoretically, do I think that a director of the FBI who knows for a fact that something is mythology but (is) misleading to the American people, and he should set the record straight? Yes, I do think he should say that, publicly.

Nancy Pelosi

Found on CNN
7 years ago

When it comes down to it, I’ve spoken with mothers and the daughter in the same family, and the mother dealt with symptoms for a few years, but the daughter dealt with them for 15 years, it’s difficult because you should theoretically have a similar menopause to your mother, but that is not the case based on my actual conversations with people.

Holly Dubrey

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Being on Disney Channel, ‘Girl Meets World’ had a devoted audience from the get-go because there are only so many kids' channels out there and young viewers consume pretty much everything that is thrown at them from Disney, though it's billed as a family show, Netflix isn't made solely for kids, so a wide-ranging audience can tune into ‘Fuller House,’ which theoretically can bring in more views, but also can alienate younger viewers….

Variety TV reporter Elizabeth Wagmeister

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

If such a measure is implemented, most of our correspondence, our business secrets, our private data would be put at risk. Because if there's a back door, not only a government official could use it, but theoretically criminals including terrorists [ could too ].

Pavel Durov

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You can not make it safe against criminals and open for governments. It's either secure or not secure, if such a measure is implemented, most of our correspondence, our business secrets, our private data would be put at risk. Because if there's a back door, not only a government official could use it, but theoretically criminals including terrorists [ could too ].

Pavel Durov

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's a challenge because there is only one rink in Singapore, theoretically it shouldn't be a challenge as it's an indoor winter sport which means we aren't really limited by the outside weather, we can create as many ice rinks in Singapore technically, but of course we need to wait for more things (events and skaters) to come up so we can have skating in more parts of Singapore.

Chun Lee-kyung

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We've discovered that the parasite causing African sleeping sickness has existed for thousands of years without having sex and is now suffering the consequences of this strategy, theoretically ... the predicted consequence of this is that it will become extinct in the long-term.

Willie Weir

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The checks and balances that theoretically could have been there didn't work. This is a mess. I mean, I feel terrible about all this happening. And that's why I'm working hard to do everything I can to repair the damage and then actually work to strengthen Flint and the citizens.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Theoretically, the move would make yuan assets more attractive to global investors over the long term.

Samuel Chien

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There really is no safe form of tobacco, even types of tobacco that may be theoretically safer because of their mode of delivery really depend on user specific details.

Frank Leone

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Theoretically it becomes a risk, but practically there are checks and balances.

Gantakolla Srivastava

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Theoretically, it is extremely compelling, today, we typically change therapy when the cancer progresses or grows - but we know the mutations occur much, much earlier.

Severin Schwan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Although accident rates will theoretically fall, new risks will come with autonomous vehicles, what should be done in the case of a faulty software algorithm? Should manufacturers be required to monitor vehicles post-sale in the case of a malfunction or a hacker attack?

Domenico Savarese

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The privatization is progressing in accordance with the international tender, and, theoretically, it will be completed in March 2016.

George Stathakis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Theoretically, a Teva/Allergan generics business combo offers Teva the opportunity to get what it was looking for without having to go through Dutch courts.

Umer Raffat

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Theoretically, we're targeting all CF patients, because the one thing that all these mutations share is that every single one of them exhibits abnormal inflammation.

Chief Executive Yuval Cohen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The way this law is written makes it anti-marriage. It's equally harmful and hurts everyone, theoretically, this bill gives legal status to same-sex marriage, but the bill is so bipolar. If you are a nonbeliever... it could take months to find someone who could perform your marriage.

Troy Stevenson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Theoretically a weak currency should help export competitiveness, but given that we produce things with imported raw materials, a weak rupiah actually increased costs and that affected exports.

Ahmad Erani Yustika

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Theoretically it seems possible, but until we test… we just don’t know, [After a year] the spontaneous recovery period from stroke is essentially over, so if we could reinstitute a state of being more receptive through therapies to drive plasticity, that would improve function and drive recovery.

Marcie Bockbrader

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's true that, theoretically, a future administration could do something that I think would be very damaging, it's not likely politically that they reverse everything that we've done, but it could be ... that some people then end up being in a disadvantageous position.

Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We just have to wait and see how the fish mature in the hatchery and what the environmental conditions look like next winter, the plan theoretically is to put them back in the creek hoping there is enough water to support them.

Manfred Kittel

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity and until they do (and find the cure) all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.

Richard Feynman

added by anonymous
13 years ago

For aesthetics is the mother of ethics. Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe-not empirically, alas, but only theoretically-that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.

Joseph Brodsky

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

Robert Anson Heinlein

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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