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
The participants were surveyed between workshops and asked to rank indicators related to the future potentiality of the technology.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 26, 2024
Classic Hollywood directors like David Lean and Douglas Sirk knew the amorous potentiality contained in the human face, harnessing its elastic electricity to illuminate soaring embraces and aching breakups.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
A tadpole is potentially a frog, and as it grows it develops from potentiality to actuality.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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 them, foreclosing the potentialities of all future generations would be so catastrophic that we should strive to reduce even the tiniest probability that this could happen.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2014
These potentialities still exist at Glastonbury and other festivals, even if only as an echo.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 18, 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
