Definition: 1. With a possibility of becoming actual.
Use 'potentially' in a sentence:
1. The filling of the Ataturk and other dams in Turkey has drastically reduced flows in the Euphrates, with potentially serious consequences for Syria and Iraq.
2. Nations from around the world have gathered in Paris for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21, with the goal of a universal and potentially legally-binding agreement onreducing greenhouse gas emissions.
3. The benzenoid hydrocarbon are all nonclassical and, thus potentially aromatic.
4. It creates an unequal playing field and potentially provides hiring managers with information that can impact their hiring decision in a negative way.
5. One potentially cheap and self-sustaining method of halting the spread of bracken is to introduce natural enemies of the plant.
6. In so doing, they can potentially get three citations-one each for the data and software in addition to the paper itself.
7. Potentially, this can reduce the number of results coming back from Twitter.
8. Children with auditory function deficit are potentially failing to learn to their maximum potential because of noise levels generated in classrooms.
9. Many household products are potentially harmful.
10. The main character is often unknowingly lured into this potentially lethal predicament by a seductive femme fatale, as in Original Sin.
11. Unless renewables become cheap enough that substantial carbon deposits are left underground for a very long time, if not forever, the planet will likely be exposed to potentially catastrophic climate risks.
12. Here's where there needs to be a much wider public conversation that extends beyond government agencies and scientific communities to include students, hobbyists, and anyone who may potentially stand to be affected by the use of CubeSat technology.
13. Police administrators credited the organization with helping defuse potentially violent situations.
14. There is a danger, of course, that play may be misinterpreted or not recognized as play by others, potentially leading to aggression.
15. The organization helped defuse potentially violent situations.
16. Many Britons will still fear the potentially ruinous costs of their legal system.
17. France is facing potentially more than one billion dollars in lost revenue this year, due to huge declines in tourism.
18. But we all have to accept that as we get older our reactions slow down and this often results in people avoiding any potentially challenging driving conditions and losing confidence in their driving skills ．
19. The hollowed-out A300 was stripped of everything potentially harmful to the environment and sunk off the Aegean coast today.
20. Sunburn is painful and potentially dangerous.
21. Many Americans will still fear the potentially ruinous costs of their legal system.
23. This process could potentially give an unfair advantage to one candidate over another.
24. Such findings, he says, suggest that "this network can be called on to process and store the kind of information taught in school — potentially giving students access to a range of untapped mental powers."
25. This can be troublesome because the tool could potentially generate hundreds or thousands of potential errors that you won't want to wade through.
26. Actionto restore appropriate price incentives, notably through corrective carbon pricing, is urgently needed to lower the risk of irreversible and potentially devastating effects of climate change.
27. France is facing potentially more than one billion dollars and lost revenue this year, due to huge declines in tourism.
28. Mountain climbing is becoming a popular sport, but it is also a potentially dangerous one.
29. Children and guns are a potentially lethal cocktail.
30. Since much of this energy comes from the utilization of fossil fuels, wastage of food potentially contributes to unnecessary global warming as well as inefficient resource utilization.
31. However, today is a new era in which taking antibiotics can cause some very dangerous and potentially life-threatening situations.
32. These analyses depend on a number of potentially confounding factors such as nonstomatal transpiration and temperature.
33. In so doing, they can potentially get three citations—one each for the data and software, in addition to the paper itself.
34. What's far less understood by scientists, however, are the potentially harmful effects of goal-setting.
35. Each of these stages could potentially be different.
36. It's believed the affair was potentially harmful to British aviation.
37. Today's report is the starkest warning yet of the potentially devastating impact of climate change and human exploitation on the Antarctic's delicate ecosystems.
38. If, thereafter, their subcontracts are for some reason reduced, such firms can face potentially crippling fixed expenses.
39. I honestly don't know how I will react the next time I meet a potentially dangerous situation.
40. He appeared to be treating the potentially explosive situation with some sensitivity.
41. The water shortage in this country is potentially catastrophic.
42. This kind of fierce nationalism is a powerful and potentially volatile force.
43. The situation is unstable and potentially dangerous.
44. Tears help to protect the eye from potentially harmful foreign bodies.
45. The sums of money involved are potentially huge.
46. It is very unnerving to find out that someone you see every day is carrying a potentially deadly virus.
47. Potentially high financial rewards are attached to senior hospital posts.
48. Lead is potentially damaging to children's health.
49. Clearly this is a potentially dangerous situation.
50. The effects of global warming, while not immediate, are potentially catastrophic.
51. Do avoid potentially contentious subjects such as religion, sex or politics.
