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potentiality

[puh-ten-shee-al-i-tee] / pəˌtɛn ʃiˈæl ɪ ti /


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Recall that the internet had supposedly rewritten the book on investment value and human potentiality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 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

From here, we move to the third card, which is our potentiality card: What is emerging?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2022

We are cultural animals and it is the richness of our culture which allows us to accept our undoubted potentiality for violence but to believe nevertheless that its expression is a cultural aberration.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

To be truly useful, an analogy must be precise not only in its actualities but in its potentialities.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2017

I would argue that Dylan writes his poetry in a way that takes full advantage of the potentialities of performance.

From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2017

For Mr. Curtis, the revisions represent “an ongoing process of completing the work, in a way, of continuing to work out the potentialities that are latent in the piece.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2015

No particles, no fluctuation, no laws, no principles, no potentialities, no states, no space, no time.

From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2014

Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright


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