Antonyms for potentiallypo·ten·tial·ly

Princeton's WordNet

1. potentiallyadverb

   with a possibility of becoming actual

   "he is potentially dangerous"; "potentially useful"

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1. Mutale Nkonde:

   This sounds great, but commercial facial recognition technologies used by Amazon, IBM and Microsoft have been found to be 40 % inaccurate when identifying Black people, so this will lead to Black people being more likely to be misidentified as attempting to commit fraud, potentially criminalizing them.

2. Ray Tomlinson:

   Everyone latched onto the idea that you could leave messages on the computer, as the network grew and the growth of all that accelerated, it became a really useful tool: there were millions of people you could potentially reach.

3. Britney Spears:

   Britney was the family's breadwinner, and she also otherwise supported you. Publicly airing false or fantastical grievances is wrong, especially when designed to sell books. It is also potentially unlawful and defamatory.

4. Prime Minister David Cameron:

   This strike is not necessary, it will be damaging, we will do everything we can to mitigate its effects but you cannot have a strike on this scale in our NHS without real difficulties for patients and potentially worse.

5. Kyle Simon:

   What some public health officials and medical experts seem to be forgetting is that, while it's critical that patients 65 and up get the vaccine as soon as possible... giving home care workers access to the vaccines gives these vulnerable patients a layer of protection so that clinicians and caregivers are not coming into their homes and potentially infecting them.

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