potential
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Jon says the website, which launched in March, has the potential to save Welsh families more than £50m a year in total.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
On Thanksgivings, his father would bring him along as he checked out potential real estate purchases.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Yet despite their enormous potential, researchers have only been able to produce these microscopic crystals from a relatively narrow range of materials.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are already changing course more often to dodge potential hazards, and at least 41,000 more satellites are expected to be deployed to low-Earth orbit by 2034.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Knowing she had little hope of finding trained code breakers, she intended instead to search for novices with the potential to go far.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
He said a UK-wide position was needed around the "appropriate regulation not just of existing technology and platforms but the potentials of the futures through AI."
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 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
A few of us agreed to help the coach run a clinic during the upcoming summer for the new varsity potentials to prep for the fall season.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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