potentiality

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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

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