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
Classic Hollywood directors like David Lean and Douglas Sirk knew the amorous potentiality contained in the human face, harnessing its elastic electricity to illuminate soaring embraces and aching breakups.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
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
Indeed, Heisenberg said that quantum particles “are not as real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.”
From New York Times ● May 8, 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
These potentialities still exist at Glastonbury and other festivals, even if only as an echo.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 18, 2014
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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