potentiality
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Recall that the internet had supposedly rewritten the book on investment value and human potentiality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 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
“What was the lost potentiality? What symphonies weren’t written? What cures weren’t found? What children weren’t raised with love?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2023
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
People who in the past would have felt too afraid to experiment with their gender or sexuality for fear of the stigma that might entail may now be more willing to explore those potentialities.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2022
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
Let it float among its rich potentialities, forever young, forever letting process transcend resolution, and, like the poet’s own talent, at home in numerous places and seasons.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 31, 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
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