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
But, he added, “we know that the potentiality is there.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2023
Since one cannot bespeak until one has been bespoken, until the telepathic potentiality has been sensitized by one clear reception, I had to get through to him first.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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
No particles, no fluctuation, no laws, no principles, no potentialities, no states, no space, no time.
From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2014
It is the most shameless tear-jerker in a couple of years … the emotional potentialities are strong, and no reluctance, restraint or artful prudence has been exercised in banging them across.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2014
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
