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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

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

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

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2022

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

No particles, no fluctuation, no laws, no principles, no potentialities, no states, no space, no time.

From Slate Jul. 8, 2014

Furthermore, initiation into the magnificent world of science brings great esthetic satisfaction, inspiration to youth, fulfillment of the desire to know, and a deeper appreciation of the wonderful potentialities and achievements of the human mind.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin




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