as in power
the ability to exert effort for the accomplishment of a task
vitamins of high potency that should be taken only in the proper dosage
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Recent Examples of potency
As the star of the USMNT, the expectation had been that Pulisic would need to show apex-predator levels of attacking potency if his side were to go far on home soil this summer.
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Elias Burke,
New York Times,
21 June 2026
Given their potency, even small quantities can be diluted into hundreds of thousands — or potentially millions — of doses once mixed and pressed into pills.
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Jonathan Moens — Bellingcat,
STAT,
18 June 2026
The potency of today’s cannabis makes these concerns hard to dismiss.
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Sarah Levy,
The Atlantic,
17 June 2026
Reforms that once seemed like silver bullets have lost their potency.
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Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
17 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for potency
Elias Burke,
New York Times,
21 June 2026
Given their potency, even small quantities can be diluted into hundreds of thousands — or potentially millions — of doses once mixed and pressed into pills.
—
Jonathan Moens — Bellingcat,
STAT,
18 June 2026
The potency of today’s cannabis makes these concerns hard to dismiss.
—
Sarah Levy,
The Atlantic,
17 June 2026
Reforms that once seemed like silver bullets have lost their potency.
—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
17 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for potency
Recent Examples of Synonyms for potency
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To put these figures in perspective, the entire city of San Francisco consumes about 1 gigawatt of power.
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The Hermosa Beach Pier closed Sunday morning after a truck collided with nearby power lines.
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The study was small, and follow-up research has not yet confirmed those results with the same strength.
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Draw upon your well of strength.
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Name the worry out loud, then choose a small boundary that protects your energy, such as turning off notifications during a demanding task.
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The episode could add further political momentum behind decarbonization, climate adaptation, electrification, and energy-efficiency investment.
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Why barre keeps showing up on class schedules Barre is the low-impact entry in this lineup, blending ballet, pilates and yoga into high-repetition, small-range movements that tone muscles without battering the joints.
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Advertisement Doperak and Lund say that pickle juice is best used to treat muscle cramps, rather than prevent them.
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Demand for powerful chips has become essentially infinite thanks to the AI boom—yet the global supply of chips remains capped by how many EUV lithography machines one company can crank out, and by how much fab capacity one other company has available.
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The renovation will reduce capacity from 51,913 to approximately 50,000.
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“Potency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/potency. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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