potential
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It was a bold move which had the potential to end the reign of fishing’s young, tech-savvy stars.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 29, 2026
The rapid improvement in artificial intelligence has also become a potential labor-saving substitute.
From MarketWatch β Aug. 29, 2026
Forest are keen to strengthen before the end of the transfer window and, as reported by The Athletic, are preparing to offer £40m plus a potential sell-on clause to clinch a deal for Armstrong.
From BBC β Aug. 29, 2026
He added that autonomous freight has the potential to create new jobs.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 29, 2026
“A great many costumes went into this one costume,” she thought, pleased with both her disguise and the potential math lesson, but there was no time to solve the costume/costumes problem just now.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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Rather than concentrating primarily on how alloys resist corrosion under ordinary conditions, Huang's group has focused on developing materials that remain stable at much higher electrical potentials.
From Science Daily β Aug. 11, 2026
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 β Apr. 22, 2026
To make the system more powerful, the researchers combined the framework with machine learning potentials that capture how atoms interact and move.
From Science Daily β Mar. 15, 2026
Other analysts are also optimistic about the company’s growth potentials.
From Barron's β Nov. 19, 2025
Moreover, both music aptitude and music achievement are dependent on audiation; i.e., our music learning potentials and our music learning achievements are based on our music thinking.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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