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

We know quite well how much of this course of reasoning is of hypothetic nature; but the strictest consistency cannot be denied it.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.

Although this too hypothetic conception is now forgotten, it is sufficient for our purposes.

From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen