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potentiality

[puh-ten-shee-al-i-tee] / pəˌtɛn ʃiˈæl ɪ ti /


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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

During the workshops, the participants were asked to think about this technology from the perspective of IFGs, to imagine how this technology might be adopted in the future and to assess its future potentiality.

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

To be truly useful, an analogy must be precise not only in its actualities but in its potentialities.

From Washington Post Oct. 6, 2017

For Mr. Curtis, the revisions represent “an ongoing process of completing the work, in a way, of continuing to work out the potentialities that are latent in the piece.”

From New York Times Aug. 19, 2015

The future is more interesting when it’s treated precisely as what it is: a set of potentialities and probabilities.

From Slate Oct. 2, 2013

Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright




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