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  • And he pays attention to what you're saying, but if he disagrees with it--if, hypothetically, you're maybe airing a pet peeve about the fact that iMacs have all their ports in the .
  • The man was not speaking hypothetically.
  • If the effect is severe in the mother, hypothetically it can reduce blood flow to the placenta and to the fetus.
News & Articles

  • Molecular imaging finds hurdle for smokers' vaccine
    ( Society of Nuclear Medicine ) Researchers have yet again been sent back to the drawing board in the development of the much-sought-after vaccination for smokers, which would hypothetically inhibit the action of nicotine and its pleasure-producing chemical response in the brain. One of the newest studies of a proposed vaccine shows mixed results for patients after molecular imaging revealed no ...
    June 11, 2013 - EurekAlert!
Quotes

  • Junior Seau in Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription)
    Thinking about it isn't going to do us any good,Seau said. "We are trying to focus on making it a reality, and that's more important than hypothetically or dramatizing it. Because until we get out there on Sunday and go ahead and prove...
  • Rudy Giuliani in International Herald Tribune
    You never answer questions like that hypothetically,Giuliani said. "Very few people ever turn the president down, but that's an unrealistic situation."
  • Barry Bonds in ESPN
    San Francisco is my home. That's the love of my life right there,Bonds said. "The fans there, the people there, everything about it is just great for me. Thinking that there could be a possibility, just hypothetically, to go somewhere else...

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