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Meanings of hypothetical in English

Russian
гипотетическое наклонение

Hypothetical mood (abbreviated HYP) is an epistemic grammatical mood found in some languages (for example Lakota) which indicates that while a statement is not actually true, it could easily have been.

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гипотетическое наклонение

Based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence.

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Examples for "hyp"
Examples for "hyp"
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But everything depended upon getting off-hyp-getting to Drammen-hyp, hyp-intime to catch the train which left for Modum at two o'clock.
Norse Tales and Sketches
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The osteogenic sarcoma-derived bone-inducing substance was implanted in Hyp mice or control mice.
Pubmed
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These results will facilitate attempts further to localize and clone the HYP gene.
Pubmed
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The 3' end of this gene is deleted in Hyp mice.
Pubmed
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This study demonstrates that complement is an important mediator in early xenograft HYP injury.
Pubmed
Usage of hypothetical in English
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So let's talk about how that works, let's do a hypothetical example.
The new yorker
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Demographics and health history differentially predicted attitude and hypothetical funding toward incentives.
Pubmed
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This hypothetical path is shorter than the path the light actually takes.
The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
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Artist's concept of the hypothetical Planet Nine orbiting far from the Sun.
The South African
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We let him work out some hypothetical routes on the computer simulation.
The water room
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However, African-American patients expressed more aversion to the hypothetical surgery than whites.
Pubmed
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That has profound implications beyond the hypothetical silliness of the Trolley Problem.
The Guardian
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As in some hypothetical reason why they might not want to help?
Existence
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Methods: An online hypothetical vignette study was completed by 454 healthy volunteers.
Pubmed
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The threats to our world-toour species-areno longer hypothetical, but real.
Fire With Fire
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Subjects chose between hypothetical monetary amounts available after various delays or immediately.
Pubmed
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But that is very hypothetical, Nhleko said during the company's results presentation.
Reuters
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The article says: Let me throw a hypothetical operation onto the table.
News.com.au
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That hypothetical voyage was the precursor of the great journey of Columbus.
The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America
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The hypothetical southerner again would have marvelled at the reception I received.
A Dominie in Doubt
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This hypothetical computer is soon going to send you a hypothetical email.
The girl who kicked the hornet's nest
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Hypothetical through the time
Hypothetical across language varieties
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