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Potential

/pəˈtɛnʃəl/
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(noun) A currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to).

Education aims to develop potential abilities.
Those children are potential customers.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The young athlete showed enormous ____ and was selected for the national development program.

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