adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
purely
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A sterile culture because a purely hypothetical one, he wrote.
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Sense organs for lunar and planetary influences, for atmospheric pressure and cosmic rays are as yet purely hypothetical . 2.
■ NOUN
case
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Let us consider these points in relation to a hypothetical case .
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Civil servants and historians can ponder the merits of hypothetical cases .
example
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Consider the following hypothetical example from political science.
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Profits and expanding industries A few hypothetical examples will explain more concretely how the market system determines what is to be produced.
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An hypothetical example can further illustrate the difficulties.
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Let us first consider a hypothetical example drawn from the earlier discussion of the causes of absenteeism.
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A calculation of this sort may be illustrated by the following hypothetical example .
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It is then illustrated using a hypothetical example from political science.
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Take, as a hypothetical example , the fairly successful film shown in the table on the next page.
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The results of the hypothetical example are as follows:.
question
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Royal author Andrew Morton said yesterday his comments on the future friendship between Gilbey and the princess were based on hypothetical questions .
situation
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Moreover, the hypothetical situation presented by the court is really one of mistake of fact.
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None of these is a hypothetical situation .
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One of our questions confronted the respondents with the hypothetical situation of the marriage of a son or daughter.
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Concrete operational children, lacking fully developed deductive reasoning about hypothetical situations , can not solve problems in this form.
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You can always use hypothetical situations .
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We confronted our respondents with two hypothetical situations .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The car insurance for a hypothetical family with two cars and three drivers would be $3,200 a year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By the 1870s Darwinians were using diagrams showing hypothetical family trees to account for relationships among species.
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He or she can reason effectively about the present, past, and future, the hypothetical , and verbal propositional problems.
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If the theories are successful, some one will find a more direct way of showing that the hypothetical entities are actually there.
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Income, consumption and savings for a hypothetical economy.
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The data are hypothetical and the axes are logarithmically transformed to produce straight lines instead of curves.
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Theoretical explanations in the sciences tend to be of an essentially hypothetical nature.
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They are inferred to exist and are properly called hypothetical constructs.!