hypothetic

Example Sentences

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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

The main forms of our thinking, the separation of subjects from predicates, the negative, hypothetic and disjunctive judgments, are purely human habits.

From Meaning of Truth by James, William

The novelist imagines how he would feel in the shoes of his characters, and cries out with the pain of hypothetic bunions.

From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel