potential
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It has the potential to bring damaging winds, torrential rain and a storm surge to parts of the US Gulf Coast with landfall expected on Friday or Saturday.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Researchers at UC San Francisco have now developed a potential alternative that could allow those cancer-fighting cells to be reprogrammed directly inside the body.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
Here are five questions to ask a potential adviser: How are you compensated, and can you show me that in writing?
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
Part of its potential lies in the future.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
“Not how I would have handled a potential explosive,” he said.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
He said a UK-wide position was needed around the "appropriate regulation not just of existing technology and platforms but the potentials of the futures through AI."
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026
"This will unlock long term value for all our shareholders because it will allow both companies to tap fully into their respective growth potentials," Busch said on Thursday.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 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
Simply put, ERG consists of taking measurements of the electrical potentials generated by neurons and other cells in the retina from the surface of the cornea.
From Science Daily ● May 13, 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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