notional

Mr. Rees’s book shows the messiness and fluidity of life in the ancient world, where hard borders were notional at best and where cultural identities overlapped.

He’s long been running a notional portfolio he calls “All Asset No Authority,” which I’ve written about before and which consists of equal investments in seven different asset classes, one of which is gold bullion.

Brown responded that she was distraught, “but since you never actually write anything, I should say I am notionally distraught.”

But Streeting’s view became public after he told a large, notionally private, meeting of Labour MPs what he thought.

The Democratic Party did indeed defenestrate its notional leader, at nearly the last possible instant and in dramatically successful fashion.