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potentially

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It has now cost us a two-year window in which 70% of our internet traffic was potentially exposed.

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Quick take

with a possibility of becoming actual; "he is potentially dangerous"; "potentially useful"

Meaning at a glance

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adverb

with a possibility of becoming actual; "he is potentially dangerous"; "potentially useful"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for potentially.

adverb

with a possibility of becoming actual; "he is potentially dangerous"; "potentially useful"

Example sentences

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It has now cost us a two-year window in which 70% of our internet traffic was potentially exposed.

2

Basing a business around an app is both risky and potentially very profitable.

3

He then addressed his concerns about my blog post, and the potentially negative impact it could have on his companys growth and current round of funding.

4

Don't we need a common-sense refresh to the wording of our laws and potentially our constitution as it pertains to how we now rely upon 3rd parties?

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If I were the aforementioned company I'd cut my losses and terminate the employee for bad PR. Now the OP has potentially hurt the suspected perpetrator's family based on actions his family is probably not even familiar with.

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Knowingly putting yourself in danger to be the first line of defense against a potentially epidemic outbreak, deserves special recognition.

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Given that this will likely trigger an audit and potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars of fines for you, how about we just agree to give my client what he has coming to him, and you report an inadvertent paperwork screwup to the tax authority when you pay your fair share?

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The idea here is to spend the most time with candidates who might potentially work out and wasting as little time as possible on those that probably won't;- the problem with these kinds of whiteboard coding problems is that the tendency is for interviewers to think the problem needs to be "hard".

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It also means you create tax risks and complications: if the equity round is too near the time of formation, the $.0001/sh pricing used by founders for their shares may look funny next to the much higher amount per share paid by investors, raising risks that the founders can be deemed to have received their shares at the higher valuation as potentially taxable service income; once you do an equity round, you will need to do 409A valuations in connection with doing option grants and that necessitates getting outside independent appraisals; equity rounds come with strings, including investor preferences, investor protective provisions limiting what you can do as a founder without investor approval, co-sale and first refusal rights favoring investors and concomitantly limiting founders, board seats and/or observer rights for investors, and the like.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use potentially in a sentence?

It has now cost us a two-year window in which 70% of our internet traffic was potentially exposed.

What does potentially mean?

with a possibility of becoming actual; "he is potentially dangerous"; "potentially useful"

What part of speech is potentially?

potentially is commonly used as adverb.