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

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