potency
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What do you think gives it the emotional potency that goes beyond “These were the people in power who wrote down their version of what happened”?
From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2026
"Switching off NFIL3 could be a decisive step toward significantly improving the long-term potency of CAR T cells," explains Prof. Feucht.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 2, 2026
That surge in lethality underscores the potency of the high-tech but cheaply made drones.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026
Yet it is precisely this fragmentation that grants the epic its peculiar potency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
The new isotope’s potency and the efficiency of the cyclotron in producing it surprised even experts accustomed to Lawrence’s guileless optimism.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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Similarly, the sense of the numinous, of potencies beyond human understanding, is made explicit and manifest, particularly in an early conversation about dark energy.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2022
He'll say things like, "Is this your first foray?" and "There are different potencies of aroma."
From BusinessWeek ● Jun. 16, 2011
As digital video media become all the more universally ubiquitous, so it seems artists throughout the world are increasingly re-embracing the primal potencies of drawing with an almost perverse timeliness.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 22, 2011
Instead, we can remind ourselves of what it's for: enriching and amplifying our potencies.
From BBC ● May 7, 2010
But other potencies there are in Middle-earth, powers of night, and they are old and strong.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor
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