potentiality
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The answer, the author wrote, depended on whether “every boom carries with it the potentiality of a serious relapse.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
Today’s teens face a yawning chasm of potentiality.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2024
The participants were surveyed between workshops and asked to rank indicators related to the future potentiality of the technology.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 26, 2024
From here, we move to the third card, which is our potentiality card: What is emerging?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
We are cultural animals and it is the richness of our culture which allows us to accept our undoubted potentiality for violence but to believe nevertheless that its expression is a cultural aberration.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
The question, of course, is whether the manifestly exciting potentialities of space will include a practical and affordable role for humans.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2019
The year 1947 did mark a tipping point between the savagery of the immediate past and the tentative stirrings of postwar potentialities.
From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2018
To be truly useful, an analogy must be precise not only in its actualities but in its potentialities.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2017
I would argue that Dylan writes his poetry in a way that takes full advantage of the potentialities of performance.
From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2017
A large, middle-aged man, he long ago won my admiration by offering equal job opportunities to members of any race, choosing according to their qualifications and future potentialities.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
