Based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence.
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Examples for "hypothetical"
Examples for "hypothetical"
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So let's talk about how that works, let's do a hypothetical example.
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Demographics and health history differentially predicted attitude and hypothetical funding toward incentives.
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This hypothetical path is shorter than the path the light actually takes.
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Artist's concept of the hypothetical Planet Nine orbiting far from the Sun.
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We let him work out some hypothetical routes on the computer simulation.
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The massacres too and the ruin, though only conjectural, they admitted also.
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My good friend here, gentlemen, deals in conjectural certificates and broken metaphors.
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Our ship's position in this waste of storm and sea is conjectural.
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How they contrived to make the ends meet, surpasses our conjectural powers.
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I am of a curious and conjectural nature, as you are aware.
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That supposititious case is a precise parallel to what has happened in Russia.
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Whether the Prince of Wales was supposititious, was a point not worth discussing.
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He made up a supposititious case, and laid it before her.
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He even soared into the realm of supposititious truth, like Plato.
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This is not an imaginary state of affairs, nor are these supposititious cases.
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See chapter 20 for the general divinatory meanings of this card.
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This is a good blend to use to consecrate and charge your divinatory tools.
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She'd consulted it, the divinatory deck, the astrological signs, everything.
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It was an ancient artefact of the divinatory Dragons Deck.
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Geomantic Figures: There are sixteen geomantic figures which, in a divinatory operation, are randomly generated.
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The case is so strange as to appear hypothetic, but the authority seems reliable.
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We are reminded that in the amphioxus (and in our hypothetic primitive vertebrate, Figs.
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The proposed characteristic is compared with the current standards with reference to a hypothetic interplanetary flight.
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Was there ever a more hypothetic appeal?
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For many years they have been a mystery to physiologists, and their origin now is little more than hypothetic.
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At war with Henry, James would naturally support his rival, whether genuine or suppositious.
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Here the two suppositious delinquents were pointed out.
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But so far everything has been purely suppositious.
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He pointed to a suppositious canvas picture.
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The problem is not suppositious.
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It was all very puzzling, and what little suppositional evidence there was, was conflicting.
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All at once it came to him what a fool he was to worry over this phase which was wholly suppositional.
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Bunny notices the frosted, achromatic nail polish she is wearing corresponds in a suppositional way with the non-colour of her eyes.
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To test this hypothesis, a benthic macroinvertebrate data set based on recent fifteen-year studies in China was built for suppositional plot analyses.
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"An assassination?" He was making great suppositional leaps, or else I was.
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Was the agency really supposed to support armed revolution in Eastern Europe?
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The peas are supposed to bring good luck for the coming year.
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Second, public companies are supposed to put making money ahead of collaboration.
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The law was supposed to apply to terrorism cases and drug-related offences.
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Several security protocols were overlooked during this supposed gross abuse of power.
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Common sense: I was supposed to run away, yell for help, etc.
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And second of all, how was he supposed to answer the question?
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Or scotch that: Fifteen years ago was supposed to be his moment.
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The low rates are supposed to increase demand through several different channels.
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I think it means we're supposed to value every moment we get.
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Which was precisely his point, he supposed, in a long, roundabout way.
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South Sudan was supposed to be declared free of polio, he said.
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She was supposed to come home today, but her flight was canceled.
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Introducing set terms and age limits was supposed to ensure smooth transitions.
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The negotiations are supposed to conclude by Feb. 10, the daily said.
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Of course, that's what bus stations were supposed to do, throughout history.
