potential
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As Trudy approached this week, Trejo and his staff found themselves once again boarding up their seaside cafe — while bracing themselves for lost income and potential damage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026
Anyone, including a chatty stranger at a park with a child, could be a potential spy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
The growing research community is now investigating both its fundamental properties and its potential technological applications.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
But this time, the group believes the samples show a potential effect on people.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Shipman, who was rated among the top twenty players in the United States, grasped the boy’s potential.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
In conventional stainless steel, the chromium based protective layer can break down at high electrical potentials.
From Science Daily ● May 10, 2026
Other analysts are also optimistic about the company’s growth potentials.
From Barron's ● Nov. 19, 2025
Virgil is an inspirational captain, a cool, calm defender who emits an aura of control that enables the rest of the team playing to fulfil their potentials.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2025
A couple of potentials he liked — Blood Reign and King’s Rain — linking the new band to Slayer’s best-known album, 1986’s “Reign in Blood,” were already in circulation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2024
As with other human learning potentials, there is a wide range of music aptitude levels distributed among the human population.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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