potentiality

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

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

“What was the lost potentiality? What symphonies weren’t written? What cures weren’t found? What children weren’t raised with love?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 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

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

Let it float among its rich potentialities, forever young, forever letting process transcend resolution, and, like the poet’s own talent, at home in numerous places and seasons.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 31, 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

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