theoretical

In a sentence

Six example sentences with theoretical, each labelled with its topic.

• His work stayed theoretical for decades, all blackboard equations, until a laboratory finally cooled atoms enough to test it.

  Science

• The model's elegance was purely theoretical, since no real market ever gave buyers the perfect information it assumed.

  Economics

• The dispute was theoretical only; both sides agreed on what to do and argued solely about why it worked.

  Philosophy

• The link's theoretical speed is ten gigabits, though nobody in the office has ever seen more than four.

  Technology

• The option's theoretical price came from a formula assuming calm markets, and the actual trade happened well above it.

  Finance

• The lecture stayed theoretical, covering three models of memory without a single example from a real patient.

  Psychology

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More Academic words

• achievable
• evidenced
• academia
• margin
• reliability
• data
• phase
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• modification
• imply
• enhance
• precisely