Potentially

//pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li//

"Potentially" in a Sentence (13 examples)

Our words are potentially ambiguous.

She caught sight of the tautology that she was looking for in a crowd of other, equally useless and potentially dangerous, tautologies.

The utterance is potentially misleading.

Every man is potentially a corpse.

This is potentially your problem.

That is potentially our problem.

Aid agencies find themselves dealing with a potentially huge humanitarian disaster and are struggling to cope with the unprecedented crisis.

Since the consequences are potentially serious, general precautions should be taken with this type of patient to avoid infection.

Tom could see that a potentially dangerous situation could arise.

An ectopic pregnancy is dangerous and potentially fatal for the mother.

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Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent, with the consequences of climate change potentially accelerating the demand.

Its impending end has rung alarm bells across social media, with a baseline tariff as high as 145% depending on the carrier set to take effect on Chinese imports, potentially more than doubling the cost for all those cheap products deal-hungry Americans scooped up.

I freely assert, that the cosmopolite philosopher cannot, for his life, point out one single peaceful influence, which within the last sixty years has operated more potentially upon the whole broad world, taken in one aggregate, than the high and mighty business of whaling.

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