hypothetic
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In a recent article for Foreign Policy, Stephen Walt imagined a hypothetic scenario in which the U.S. announced military action to punish Brazil for the deforestation of the Amazon.
From Slate ● Aug. 23, 2019
My sorry dreams of love synthetic Will never not be hypothetic, And people call me misanthropic, Whenever I bring up this topic.
From Slate ● May 3, 2018
Then in one of many tonal shifts, she raises her voice, irritated at the audience’s hypothetic gratitude: “But I made you tense!”
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2018
As to the pleasure, that vague, hypothetic pleasure, they have never had it in all these years, and in all reasonable probability they never will.
From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 by F. G. (Francis George) Fowler
Here, sure enough, are sad new intricacies in the Diplomatic, hypothetic sphere of things; and clouds piling themselves ahead, in a very minatory manner to King Friedrich.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Thomas Carlyle
