How to Use potentiality in a Sentence

potentiality

noun

• There was no discussion of what use, if any, to make of my new potentiality.
  — Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
• The younger generations tend to be the most concerned about the potentiality of AI stepping on their toes.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2024
• This is a negative freedom that does not expand one’s sense of self so much as shrink it to pure potentiality.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
• Each figure played a key role in shaping an evocative notion of the region’s sense of potentiality.
  — Lynell George, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2019
• The modern day loan system is botched, and needs addressing if prodigious young talents are to reach their full potentialities.
  — SI.com, 15 Apr. 2017
• The year 1947 did mark a tipping point between the savagery of the immediate past and the tentative stirrings of postwar potentialities.
  — Dagmar Herzog, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2018
• And that one, when connected to that other one, sparks something: an energy, a knowledge, a potentiality that is so much bigger than that one.
  — Evan Nicole Brown, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 July 2022
• That could also determine whether there are charges in connection with the other statutes there -- potentiality (ph).
  — ABC News, 28 Aug. 2022
• Additionally, with the expansion of the tournament from 32 teams to 48 teams, this debate has caught alight with the potentiality of seeing an increase in teams of lesser quality.
  — SI.com, 2 July 2018
• For now, those future victims are potentiality burrowed away in one figure: 69 million.
  — Libby Lewis, Slate Magazine, 11 Aug. 2017
• There has never really been a timeline in Ms. Atkinson’s novels, but rather a timescape, a realm in which everything exists at once in potentiality and only gradually emerges as a story that is as much quandary as plot.
  — Katherine A. Powers, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2018
• Somewhere between the billionaires and the flameouts, there are less dramatic potentialities.
  — Vauhini Vara, WIRED, 23 May 2017
• The cartoon landscape is a model of the marvelous that’s an alibi for something much more malign: a world where infinite potentiality is experienced as terror.
  — Adam Thirlwell, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2020
• And there is also an undercurrent of resentment that newcomers should be telling veteran ranchers about the potentialities of the land in southern Wasco County.
  — David Sarasohn, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2018
• Whatever happens, clearly there is an urgent need for the U.S. government to address such potentialities.
  — Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
• In a striking parallel to the 1990s, epochal thinking about the potentialities of a high technology society has once again upended politics.
  — Jacob Bruggeman & Casey Eilbert / Made By History, TIME, 3 Mar. 2025
• If Vietnam damaged the credibility of experts, experts were no more inclined to value the democratic potentialities of the public.
  — Daniel Bessner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Apr. 2017
• But that year’s election centered mostly on style, policy, and potentiality.
  — Michael Szalma, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Nov. 2024
• Possibly, but entwined with this theme of curiosity is the potentiality that these tales are begging readers to also consider the importance of obedience and trust.
  — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 12 Sep. 2021
• The net effect of this case is to increase the potentiality for totalitarianism in America.
  — Norman Mailer, Daily Intelligencer, 30 June 2017
• Stimson, while emphasizing the peace-time potentiality of the new force, made clear that much research must be undertaken to effect full peacetime application of its principles.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2023
• Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is set to avoid an across-the-board halt to a travel incentive program seen as potentiality spreading the coronavirus, a report said, even as Japan’s worst outbreak undermined support for his cabinet.
  — Bloomberg.com, 13 Dec. 2020
• Closely aligned to potentiality, virtual referred to the internal, but as yet unexpressed, capacities of a thing.
  — Jacob Brogan, Slate Magazine, 1 Sep. 2017
• The Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany, among others, did away with the fertilization language, opting instead for the idea of potentiality — that an embryo was defined by its capacity to generate a human being.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 17 Aug. 2023
• Poland gleamed as an unknown, an enticing potentiality.
  — Thomas Swick, Longreads, 5 July 2018
• Life becomes fuller, richer, but also, in one important arena, decided, and robbed of enticing potentialities.
  — Thomas Swick, Longreads, 5 July 2018
• Slime is a reoccurring motif in Heaney’s work, characterizing the unstable nature of all things and the self and symbolising potentiality and transformation.
  — Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
• Typically, the editors will set up multiple story lines in each episode that ultimately coalesce by the time the contestants reach Tribal Council into two or three potentialities.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2024
• The Paris Saint-Germain academy graduate screened his backline effectively and with commitment, meaning that those ahead of him could play freely and confidently without worrying about the potentiality of danger behind them.
  — SI.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• Canter also acknowledged how other decisions could impact the potentiality of some of his players returning.
  — Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Feb. 2025