While experts ponder the odds of a cometborne pandemic, a hypothetical scenario illustrates the awfulness of such a phenomenon.

It was one hypothetical scenario he was clearly not prepared to contemplate.

It used answers from about 160 obstetricians and gynaecologists, who completed an anonymous questionnaire based on a hypothetical scenario.

It’s a hypothetical scenario, of course.

But even when the scientists ran the analysis under a hypothetical scenario—imagining what would happen if natural systems had fewer species, like the experiments did—natural systems still had an edge.

That aside, we need to address this hypothetical situation.

In this hypothetical situation, who would win?

The teacher may attempt to propose a hypothetical situation in which the student's assertion would seem to demand an exception.

However, the government has denied the proposal on the grounds that the proposal addressed a hypothetical situation and failed to satisfy legal requirements.

An example of this can be seen if one thinks of a hypothetical situation in which two individuals are engaging in conversation.

The 'or don't do it at all' option was purely hypothetical in our household.

However, paper gains are purely hypothetical; investors haven't really made a penny until they sell.

This process was previously named mitohormesis or mitochondrial hormesis on a purely hypothetical basis.

In the beginning of the twentieth century, however, atoms were considered by many physicists to be purely hypothetical constructs, rather than real objects.