potent
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It’s the latest tool for reducing screen time, a potent device for the times when avoiding Instagram or TikTok can’t be accomplished with willpower alone.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 30, 2026
Fantasy franchises are potent weapons in streaming’s race to build content arsenals.
From Salon • Jun. 24, 2026
The 19-year-old, whose prodigious leap makes him a potent aerial threat, finished joint top of the Prem try-scoring charts with 18 this season.
From BBC • Jun. 22, 2026
His “We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite”—a potent suite with lyrics about black history, from enslavement through emancipation—arrived during the civil-rights movement.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 22, 2026
The courage and vision of men like Lekota confirmed to us that our views remained potent, and still represented the best hope for unifying the liberation struggle as a whole.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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