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  • Fleming was the first to raise the possibility of a Pottsville curse.
    Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 15 Jan. 2022
  • Mark Gurman, in 2021, was the first to raise the possibility of an iPad with a larger display.
    Maren Estrada, BGR, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Khesin and co raise the possibility that the same technique could also provide copy protection in the quantum world.
    The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Thursday's protests -- and the developments since -- also raise the possibility of worse things to come.
    Rukshana Rizwie, CNN, 2 Apr. 2022
  • The dizzying rally in technology stocks this year has helped fuel the market recovery, but the scale of the gains raise the possibility of large drawdowns this fall.
    Francesca Fontana, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Ultimately, Nora’s and Lurie’s stories both raise the possibility of a home in the West—in the world—defined not by treaties or conquest or lines on a map but by the presence of loved ones, living or dead.
    Anna North, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2021
  • But the events of the past week raise the possibility that officials have finally found misconduct by Trump for which he can be held legally accountable.
    David Rohde, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The union did not offer to take a pay cut in its ongoing dialogue with Major League Baseball on starting the season, but did raise the possibility of deferrals for the first time.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2020
  • Behaviors such as these raise the possibility that whatever mimicry takes place in this species is not based on theory of mind, but a process that is more akin to trial-and-error learning.
    Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The closures come while MLB owners and players try to negotiate a deal to begin the season, and raise the possibility the virus outbreak could scuttle all attempts at starting up this year.
    Josephy Wilson and Jamey Keaten, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 June 2020
  • The findings raise the possibility that shifts in gut bacteria help drive the aging process—and that protecting these microbes could help people lead longer, healthier lives.
    Melinda Wenner Moyer, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2021
  • These findings raise the possibility that ZBP1 may play a dual role in how the body responds to viral and bacterial infections.
    Hayley Muendlein, The Conversation, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Schredl and Erlacher also raise the possibility that the cognitive impairment brought on by fever might contribute to the strangeness of dreams.
    Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 26 Aug. 2022
  • That may cause flash flooding and raise the possibility of mudslides in Central America later this weekend.
    Leigh Morgan, al, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Many have been shaken by the increasing conservatism on the court, including the three Trump appointees, and raise the possibility that the Democrats could lose their fragile one-vote Senate majority, through a death.
    Joan Biskupic, CNN, 16 June 2021
  • Despite the lack of beauty points, Miami has put together a three-game winning streak to bring coach Manny Diaz off the hot seat and raise the possibility of an eight-win regular season.
    Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 7 Nov. 2021
  • Border and his colleagues are not the first to raise the possibility of spurious genetic correlations.
    Grace Huckins, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Any possible visits from senior U.S. politicians to Taiwan could be seen by the Chinese as provocative actions and could raise the possibility of actual clashes between the countries, the people said.
    Andrew Restuccia, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2022
  • His victory will raise the possibility of yet another rogue state awarding its electoral votes to the GOP candidate for president in 2024, even if the Democratic candidate appears to have secured the most votes.
    David Faris, The Week, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Even so, the scale of the gains among major technology shares this year, the resulting rich valuations and the gobsmacking market capitalizations of many of these firms, raise the possibility of large share-price drawdowns this fall.
    Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2020
  • These findings raise the possibility that visual attention deficits, present from a very early age, are at least in part responsible for the challenges characteristic of dyslexia.
    Matthew H. Schneps, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2015
  • Those mutations raise the possibility that the variant could reduce the effectiveness of the coronavirus vaccines, although more study is needed to arrive at a conclusive answer.
    Aidin Vaziri, SFChronicle.com, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Powell's comments raise the possibility that the Fed will increase its key interest rate by a half-percentage point at its next meeting March 21-22, after having carried out a quarter-point hike in early February.
    CBS News, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Powell’s comments raise the possibility that the Fed will increase its key interest rate by a half-percentage point at its next meeting March 21-22, after having carried out a quarter-point hike in early February.
    Christopher Rugaber, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Some raise the possibility that Lentz’s swift firing was retaliation On-screen, past associates of Brian Houston paint him as vindictive.
    Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 16 May 2023
  • Isacoff and his colleagues have carried out experiments of their own that raise the possibility that other optogenetic proteins could make retinal cells sensitive enough to detect light without the help of goggles.
    BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2021
  • Read full article Powell’s comments raise the possibility that the Fed will increase its key interest rate by a half-percentage point at its next meeting March 21-22, after having carried out a quarter-point hike in early February.
    Christopher Rugaber, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The differing results raise the possibility that only inhabitants of Doggerland turned human bones into deadly points during the Mesolithic.
    Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2020
  • The direct effects on internet speech are obvious—these proposals, though thankfully not yet gaining broad traction, in and of themselves raise the possibility of implementation.
    Justin Sherman, Wired, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Opponents argued that case-by-case reviews are too subjective and raise the possibility or perception of bias, potentially triggering lawsuits.
    Katy Read, Star Tribune, 22 Sep. 2020

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