hypothetically

Well, if I were to do this purely hypothetically, that is I would probably use pages from the inner depths of the paper...not front page news.

Newspaper Sleeve Obscures Your Laptop | Lifehacker Australia 2009

Right below the surface of George Bush, Dick Cheney, Tom DeLay, and many of the leading senators and congressmen there are ugly, repugnant demons from hell who just love to take the far, far, far right distorted path that lies behind the noble chimera they use to mask their putrescent actions and intentions ... hypothetically, that is.

Noble Goals; How the Far Right Routinely Distorts and Corrupts them 2006

Right below the surface of George Bush, Dick Cheney, Tom DeLay, and many of the leading senators and congressmen there are ugly, repugnant demons from hell who just love to take the far, far, far right distorted path that lies behind the noble chimera they use to mask their putrescent actions and intentions ... hypothetically, that is.

Printing: Noble Goals; How the Far Right Routinely Distorts and Corrupts them 2006

"But what would happen," Moichi persisted, "if you did come up against one hypothetically, that is?"

beneath an opal moon Lustbader, Eric 1980

[I thought the person whom I have called hypothetically the Man of Letters changed color a little and betrayed a certain awkward consciousness that some of us were looking at him or thinking of him; but I am a little suspicious about him and may do him wrong.]

The Poet at the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

I answer, that this precept commands some things absolutely, which oblige all; some things only hypothetically, that is, in case God shall discover it to be his will to be obeyed in such particular instances: and consequently oblige there only, where God shall make such discoveries.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823

Still, there are limits, as when HarperCollins canceled the publication of If I Did It, O.J. Simpson's quasi-psychotic volume of filth about how he "hypothetically" could have murdered two people he probably did murder.

Andrew Foster Altschul: A Challenge to Publishers: Say No to Gonzo 2010

I write "hypothetically" because PMCs mentioned in the past (think CACI and Titan at Abu Ghraib) in this regard fiercely object to the idea that they did any such thing.

David Isenberg: Speaking Hypothetically: What to Do When a PMC Tortures 2010

Although Pfc. Manning didn't claim to have taken Afghan war logs, he said in the chats with Mr. Lamo that "hypothetically" he had access to a similar database, from a similar time period, from the Iraq war.

Military Probe Again Targets Manning 2010

Still, there are limits, as when HarperCollins canceled the publication of If I Did It, O.J. Simpson's quasi-psychotic volume of filth about how he "hypothetically" could have murdered two people he probably did murder.

A Challenge to Publishers: Say No to Gonzo Andrew Foster Altschul 2010