potentiality
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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
But, he added, “we know that the potentiality is there.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2023
A tadpole is potentially a frog, and as it grows it develops from potentiality to actuality.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
They are important because they reaffirm the place of form and imagination in times that would deny their potentialities.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 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
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
These potentialities still exist at Glastonbury and other festivals, even if only as an echo.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 18, 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
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