potential
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Sometimes when he struggled to brainstorm potential queries, he asked the AI to adopt strange personas: “You are the ghost of Blackbeard. Explain the principles of operation of a nuclear power plant in 300 words.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
Polymarket allows users to buy and sell shares tied to the probability of real-world events, from who will win the Oscars to the outcome of an election or potential ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
He said: "We have produced a lot of great goalkeepers, but Mike is the one with the potential to reach the same level as Thibaut. His sense of calm is gold in goalkeeping."
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
Underlying much of this concern was implicit or explicit acceptance of the Malthusian idea that whereas population has the potential to grow exponentially, it is kept constantly under check by its capacity to feed itself.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
They had sent her a list of potential transfers.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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They produced electrical signals known as action potentials and made proteins associated with specific regions of the hindbrain that control facial and swallowing muscles.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
Together, the two layers allow the steel to resist corrosion in chloride containing environments at potentials reaching 1700 mV.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
The team also used pattern visual evoked potentials – a painless test that measured how well signals travelled from the retina to the visual cortex.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
"Advances in AI system performance unlock new potentials for automation," said Milan Nedeljkovic, who is BMW's head of production and is set to take over as CEO in May.
From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026
Moreover, both music aptitude and music achievement are dependent on audiation; i.e., our music learning potentials and our music learning achievements are based on our music thinking.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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