as in possibility
something that can develop or become actual
would like to see a colony on the moon as an actuality and not merely a potentiality
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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.
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Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2024
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
Today’s reality-TV and SJW movies pervert the potentialities of spiritual and social realism.
—Armond White, National Review, 19 June 2024
My moral object, therefore, is to attempt to direct the efforts of men toward the clear appreciation of reality, exposing the illusory in order that man may realize his creative potentialities.
—Andrew Aoyama, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2024
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Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2024
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
Today’s reality-TV and SJW movies pervert the potentialities of spiritual and social realism.
—Armond White, National Review, 19 June 2024
My moral object, therefore, is to attempt to direct the efforts of men toward the clear appreciation of reality, exposing the illusory in order that man may realize his creative potentialities.
—Andrew Aoyama, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2024
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“Potentiality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/potentiality. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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