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hypotheticals

noun

plural of hypothetical

as in assumptions

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 There’s no reason to believe organizers of PGA tournaments, marathons, NASCAR races and similar sporting would ever demand payment, and thus the hypotheticals are arguably scare tactics rather than realistic consequences. — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 21 July 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 Families confronting complicated pregnancies are living through painful, high-stakes situations — not policy hypotheticals. — Robin Sautter, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2026 The conservative justices peppered Stewart with hypotheticals. — Arkansas Online, 24 Mar. 2026 In the view of the Department of Defense, Anthropic kneecapped the partnership by insisting on unnecessary guardrails, attempting to litigate specific hypotheticals, and then dragging its feet in the subsequent negotiations. — Harry Booth, Time, 11 Mar. 2026 And after a seventh-straight loss and a second straight season left spiraling, hypotheticals could only carry USC and its coach so far. — Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2026

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If an employee hesitates or overcommits, avoid making assumptions or asking defensive questions.

— Julie Kratz, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
The alternative is to allow each side’s strategy to reinforce the other’s worst assumptions until escalation begins to look less like a choice than an inevitability.

— Hamidreza Azizi, Time, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of assumptions

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Without a direct and blanket statement in the tradition providing a rationale, European and Indian scholars have proposed a variety of theories to explain Hindu divine morphology.

— Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026
Astrophysicists have several theories for what dark matter could be.

— Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026

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