potential
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In 2025, the American Heart Association issued a statement saying that, while cuffless devices have potential, there are “unanswered questions” around their accuracy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
Meanwhile, Polish security services convened a special meeting on Sunday after receiving information about a potential attack on Tusk and Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, a spokesperson said.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
Further research would be needed to evaluate any potential medical applications.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
To select global sites, Google looks for "proximity to customers and users, access to talent, potential for new clean energy and opportunities to establish mutually beneficial partnerships with local communities", Smith said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
If he was a friend—or a potential friend, anyway—the answer was in helping him.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
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
Despite being the world's top cassava producer, "when it comes to the yield, actual yield potentials and all of that, we are still way behind", Diebiru-Ojo said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 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
Without action potentials, a neuron's communication with other cells is greatly suppressed or even silenced.
From Science Daily ● May 24, 2024
Between the major groups of insecticides, and between them and other chemicals, there are interactions that have serious potentials.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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