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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

From here, we move to the third card, which is our potentiality card: What is emerging?

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2022

A tadpole is potentially a frog, and as it grows it develops from potentiality to actuality.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

His military aide, Navy Captain John H. Morse Jr., seconded his opinion: “You may detect some feeling that clean weapon potentialities have been over-stated and over-simplified recently,” he wrote Lawrence.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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