potential explanation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpotentialandexplanation
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potential
adjective[before noun]
uk/pəˈten.ʃəl/us/poʊˈten.ʃəl/
possible when the necessary ...
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explanation
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/us/ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/
the details or reasons that someone gives to make something clear or easy ...
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This wording and the timing of the interview - nearly half a year after the last election - may be apotentialexplanationfor this apparent contradiction.
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Apotentialexplanationfor this finding is that some governance mechanisms are potentially not relevant for both sources of value creation.
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The type of earnings risk faced by the richest is also apotentialexplanationworth investigating.
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There is, however, onepotentialexplanationwhich would have deserved further consideration even in the present book.
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Thus, seed mortality resulting from desiccation provides apotentialexplanationfor the observed trend of an increasing spread of germination times with increasing t50.
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Onepotentialexplanationfor these null findings may have been our broad definition of significant adult relationships.
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The 'synaptic tagging' hypothesis has been introduced as apotentialexplanation.
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This account could also provide apotentialexplanationfor some of the findings that the weak central coherence account cannot explain.
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This is apotentialexplanationfor the asymmetric effect that is found for transfers.
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Anotherpotentialexplanationinvolves the perceptual nature of the scoring and the difference in articulatory and acoustic properties between the two sound types.
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Another vein in the literature of experimental psychology may enliven a debate on capacity limits, where considerations about duration decay remain a persistingpotentialexplanation.
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Thispotentialexplanationis contrary to previous research on children's speech production.
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Onepotentialexplanationfor these differences can be obtained from a slight generalization of the above model.
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Onepotentialexplanationfor this discrepancy is that modafinil treatment improved some symptoms that were not captured in our rating scales.
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On the other hand, with respect to agreement violations, apotentialexplanationmay be found within the two violation types used in the experiment.
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However, the possibility provides anotherpotentialexplanationfor the deleterious effects of parental histocompatibility discussed in earlier sections.
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There is apotentialexplanationfor their result.
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It is highly plausible that a lack of methodological stringency may be onepotentialexplanationfor the inconsistent results between studies.
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Onepotentialexplanationis the difference between a procedure such as the one used here and those used in typical standardized tests.
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Given that positive feedback also promotes coarse-grained over fine-grained patterns, this provides apotentialexplanationfor observed divergent allophonic context-dependencies.
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