They discussed hypothetical explanations to try to keep it private, the lawyers said.

Admittedly that is a hypothetical explanation of the pictures at Nazca, but surely something like it could have happened?

It is a hypothetical explanation for evolution and development of organisms, which Bergson linked closely with consciousness.

Hypotheses (theoretical, hypothetical explanations of observations and measurements of the subject)

There is a hypothetical explanation, as in the Indoeuropean there exists the root *ser-/*sor-, which means "to run, to flow".

Six hypothetical explanations are offered for why the colonists shifted to military struggle, despite the considerable success of nonviolent struggle.

The hypothetical explanations are not meant as mutually exclusive, but as "avenues for fruitful inquiry.

Use Occam's razor to prune the list of hypothetical explanations of the observation.

Critical examination of the hypothetical explanation:

Under Lathyrus nissolia it would [be] better to refer to my hypothetical explanation of the grass-like leaves than to nothing.