theoretical
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"I want to bring this discussion to mission teams, because, at the end of the day, it's not theoretical -- it's a reality that we're going to go there," Sinibaldi said.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
"As half of our overheads stem from staff costs, a theoretical calculation -- assuming no change in labour costs -- would result in the loss of around 50,000 jobs," he said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
Power plants harnessing this process couldn’t melt down and would create only a little short-lived radioactive waste, but they remain theoretical.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
But it has now also surpassed director Christopher Nolan's 2023 film about the American theoretical physicist J Robert Oppenheimer, which previously held the box office record for any film based on a real-life figure.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
But Ptolemy and his followers had assumed that measurements could be regarded as approximations: in practice, there were bound to be minor discrepancies between theoretical predictions and actual measurements.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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