possibility

Example Sentences

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The turning point came last summer, when he decided to explore the possibility that he might have ADHD.

From BBC

But as a feeling, it’s far more akin to gospel, like a baroque passage of biblical scripture comparing the earthly limitations of the body and the endless possibilities of the mind.

From Salon

This result rules out a broad range of possibilities that had been suggested by earlier anomalies.

From Science Daily

That is part of the lifeblood of the state’s culture, cuisine, commerce and sense of possibility, and those students are now our teachers, nurses, physicians, engineers, entrepreneurs and tech whizzes.

From Los Angeles Times

The possibility of a genealogical tree of life is predicated on the existence of an underlying process of heredity.

From The Wall Street Journal