Our words are potentially ambiguous.
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Potentially
//pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li//
Synonyms for "potentially" (3 found)
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1 entriesrelated to
3 entriesTranslations
11 translations across 10 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- potencialment adv (in a manner showing much potential; with the possibility of happening in a given way)
Dutch
1 entries- potentieel adv (in a manner showing much potential; with the possibility of happening in a given way)
French
1 entries- potentiellement adv (in a manner showing much potential; with the possibility of happening in a given way)
Georgian
1 entries- პოტენციურად adv (in a manner showing much potential; with the possibility of happening in a given way)
Greek
1 entries- ενδεχομένως adv (in a manner showing much potential; with the possibility of happening in a given way)
Italian
1 entries- potenzialmente adv (in a manner showing much potential; with the possibility of happening in a given way)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- potensielt adv (in a manner showing much potential; with the possibility of happening in a given way)
Polish
1 entries- potencjalnie adv (in a manner showing much potential; with the possibility of happening in a given way)
Portuguese
1 entries- potencialmente adv (in a manner showing much potential; with the possibility of happening in a given way)
Spanish
2 entries- potencialmente adv (in a manner showing much potential; with the possibility of happening in a given way)
- presuntamente adv (in a manner showing much potential; with the possibility of happening in a given way)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
She caught sight of the tautology that she was looking for in a crowd of other, equally useless and potentially dangerous, tautologies.
Source: tatoeba (805917)
The utterance is potentially misleading.
Source: tatoeba (839185)
Every man is potentially a corpse.
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