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hypotheticals

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something taken as being true or factual and used as a starting point for a course of action or reasoning believes that predictions of the extinction of certain species as the result of global warming are based upon too many hypotheticals

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Recent Examples of hypotheticals The anti-immigrant movement reduces kids to constitutional hypotheticals and demographic statistics. — Hannah Harshe, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2026 When asked about why voters should choose him over Vance, who is seen as the GOP’s likeliest presidential candidate, Kennedy did not wade into hypotheticals. — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 4 Oct. 2026 Some analysts voiced skepticism about the risk of a societal-scale attack carried out by AI, however, noting that such warnings typically come in the form of vague hypotheticals. — Max Zahn, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026 Thus, hypotheticals involving the NFL using a college football model might have been off base. — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 8 Sep. 2026 His second-guessing doesn’t stanch his inner torrent of bile, which continues through dinner with Irène and her mother, and goes on for another fifteen pages of emotional hypotheticals and conditionals. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 9 July 2026 With that in mind, let’s run through some of those hypotheticals that Zito will be facing — and has been facing — as free agency looms. — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 28 June 2026 And in desperate times, people don’t tend to think in hypotheticals or a decade out. — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2026 The conservative justices peppered Stewart with hypotheticals. — Arkansas Online, 24 Mar. 2026

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Even watching a magic trick can challenge our assumptions about the world and stimulate more original thinking.

— Julie Bourdin, NPR, 25 Oct. 2026
In the short term, slowing demand would mean lower emissions from the existing system than today’s baseline assumptions and less investment in new natural gas infrastructure.

— Justin Worland, Time, 23 Oct. 2026

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