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‘Children can be hypothetical.’

[⟨det (plur child.n)⟩ hypothetical.a]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Damn he was sexy when he got worked up. “If hypothetically we never have any couple time then we won *n’t be having more hypothetical children will we?’ ’ “Whatever.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I saw a life with my best friend and his hypothetical wife and hypothetical children? and I thought that if that’s how things turn out for Sasuke, it would be nice.?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

We love this arrangement and will do so with any [hypothetical but very cute] future children.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Reproduction not actually required; hypothetical children count. 1.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

“For me the conversation was hypothetical – hypothetical children with a hypothetical man – and I worried that for him it wasn’t.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Reproduction not actually required; hypothetical children count. 1.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

And I like to believe, and would love to have my hypothetical children believe, that they did it not because they were heroes, nor because they were Spartans, but because they were men; they knew that they could not win, and yet they fought; they could not be sure that their sacrifice would inspire future victories, and still they fought.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I, for one, would rather raise my hypothetical children next to a brothel than a church.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

They had four or five children, I believe; but anyway, the advice they gave us, over and over, was to find time for ourselves, to make time for ourselves, to hire babysitters, to go away for weekends if family would watch our hypothetical future children, to do whatever we could to still do the romantic’ ‘date’’ things we liked to do (in our case, antique store browsing, used book hunting and things like that) without the kids.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

That will be different if / when little Eleanor and Nathalie are up at the crack of dawn demanding to know what the fat bloke in the red pyjamas has left in their stockings, but since I’m yet to meet someone with whom to have these hypothetical children, I don’t think my Scrooge – meets – Grinch position is going to change in the foreseeable future.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Somehow, when I’m imagining those hypothetical children, I never try to impose my own goals on them.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

P. S. – If one of my hypothetical children ends up being totally metal, I can only pray he gets Boy’s alcohol tolerance genes.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

It wasn’t even that the items were necessarily of inferior quality (though she hastened to add that she wouldn’t really know, having never tried them herself), but rather that it made me’ ’ look poor’ ’ and that my hypothetical children would be taunted for that.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Has never entertained anyone ever, to the point where his hypothetical children start crying when he enters the room.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I thought it might be interesting to complete that’ ’ privilege meme’ ’ (yes, I’m still thinking about it) from my parents’ perspective, since I’ve already done it for myself and my hypothetical children.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Reproduction not actually required; hypothetical children count. 1.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

They don’t’ ‘do’’ hypothetical children.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Plus, I remember very fondly the scores of Halloween costumes my mother lovingly sewed for me and my sister over the years, and I figured if I want to have a chance of doing the same thing for hypothetical eventual children, I should probably, you know, learn to sew.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Whether or not these rumors are true is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, but Banned Books Week still reminds us that there are a lot of wonderful challenged books (PDF) that I certainly would want my hypothetical children to be able to read.
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Queried on 2013-05-22.