potential danger
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpotentialanddanger
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potential
adjective[before noun]
uk/pəˈten.ʃəl/us/poʊˈten.ʃəl/
possible when the necessary ...
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danger
noun
uk/ˈdeɪn.dʒər/us/ˈdeɪn.dʒɚ/
the possibility of harm or death ...
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(Definition ofpotentialanddangerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thispotentialdangercalled for a consideration of whether communists could support the nationalist cause.
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By this very rapid response topotentialdangerthe king eloquently demonstrated the way in which he could react coolly and effectively under extreme pressure.
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He was therefore considered apotentialdangerto the elite.
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In transitive clauses, however, there is apotentialdangerof interpreting the object as the (intransitive) predicate.
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However, there is also apotentialdangerthat these properties can be easily changed via seemingly harmless syntactic manipulations!
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Thepotentialdangeris that blood safety management will become more and more guided by available technology rather than by objective need and efficiency.
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Their analysis may be correct but anaemia remains apotentialdangerin pregnancy especially in the face of haemorrhage.
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This fact underlines thepotentialdangerof cardiac autopsies being conducted primarily by those who are not fully trained pathologists.
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Moreover, it seems that there is apotentialdangerof overlooking the innovations that could affect the field that are taking place in related areas.
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Given thepotentialdangerto people and property that crowd action could pose, refusing to comply with a mob's demands was a political statement in itself.
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He is also concerned, however, with thepotentialdangerof creating long suture lines, recognising the fact that such procedures unequivocally set the scene for subsequent arrhythmias.
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Cystic hydatidosis can be a major problem in that it affects the productivity and working efficiency of camels, and is also apotentialdangerfor public health.
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Researchers suggest that the amygdala receives signals of thepotentialdangerand then sets off a series of reactions that help protect the individual from the perceived harm.
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Nonetheless, holistic finalism contains apotentialdanger.
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However, the frequent instances of class-based attitudes and discrimination - linked to the idea of the poor as apotentialdangerto social order - caused deep divisions among the refugee population.
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Clearly, cultural definitions of appetite as a force to be suppressed, of food as apotentialdanger to be contained, are not inventions of the late twentieth century.
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An explosive atmosphere is a highly inflammable mixture of air and flammable substances, and constitutes apotentialdangerto workers.
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