Potency
noun
The power or ability to have an effect, to change or influence something or someone.
This drug's potency is causing some serious side effects.
Often appears as...
- drug potency
- damaging potency
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Neutral
noun
The strength of something such as a drug or alcoholic beverage.
The alcohol's potency was stronger than I expected.
Often appears as...
- high potency
- low potency
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Neutral
noun
In biology, a cell's or organism's ability to develop into different types of cells or tissues.
Stem cells are valued for their high potency.
Often appears as...
- stem cell potency
- high potency
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Neutral
Academic
noun
The degree to which something or someone is successful or effective.
The potency of her speaking abilities impressed the audience.
Often appears as...
- increasing potency
- potency in performance
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Approving
noun
In magic or superstition, the power to influence or control things using mysterious or supernatural forces.
The amulet is said to possess great spiritual potency.
Often appears as...
- magical potency
- spiritual potency
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Neutral
Idiomatic
noun
The power or ability to have an effect, to change or influence something or someone.
This drug's potency is causing some serious side effects.
Often appears as...
- drug potency
- damaging potency
Usage tips
Neutral
noun
The strength of something such as a drug or alcoholic beverage.
The alcohol's potency was stronger than I expected.
Often appears as...
- high potency
- low potency
Usage tips
Neutral
noun
In biology, a cell's or organism's ability to develop into different types of cells or tissues.
Stem cells are valued for their high potency.
Often appears as...
- stem cell potency
- high potency
Usage tips
Neutral
Academic
noun
The degree to which something or someone is successful or effective.
The potency of her speaking abilities impressed the audience.
Often appears as...
- increasing potency
- potency in performance
Usage tips
Approving
noun
In magic or superstition, the power to influence or control things using mysterious or supernatural forces.
The amulet is said to possess great spiritual potency.
Often appears as...
- magical potency
- spiritual potency
Usage tips
Neutral
Idiomatic
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/2Influencing Change
When 'potency' is used, it's about impact on change or influence over a situation.
The potency of her arguments could change the outcome of the debate.
Pro Tip 2/2Intensity and Effect
'Potency' can refer to how intense or strong an effect or influence is.
The campaign's potency surprised everyone with its widespread impact.
Pro Tip 1/2Influencing Change
When 'potency' is used, it's about impact on change or influence over a situation.
The potency of her arguments could change the outcome of the debate.
Pro Tip 2/2Intensity and Effect
'Potency' can refer to how intense or strong an effect or influence is.
The campaign's potency surprised everyone with its widespread impact.
Pro Tip 1/2Influencing Change
When 'potency' is used, it's about impact on change or influence over a situation.
The potency of her arguments could change the outcome of the debate.
Pro Tip 2/2Intensity and Effect
'Potency' can refer to how intense or strong an effect or influence is.
The campaign's potency surprised everyone with its widespread impact.
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Dr. Dean Ornish: Your...
of early prostate cancer and, by extension, breast cancer, simply by making these changes. We've found that tumor growth in vitro was inhibited 70 percent in the group that made these changes, whereas only nine percent in the comparison group. These differences were highly significant. Even your sexual organs get more blood flow, so you increase sexual potency.
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The opportunity of...
to one of possibility -- or potency, to be even a little bit more dangerous -- we can release the power of so many more children, and invite them to engage their rare and valuable abilities with the community. Anthropologists tell us that the one thing we as humans have always required of our community members
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Quorum sensing: Bacteria...
this could form the foundation of a new type of therapeutic and so what we're doing in the lab right now is we're taking the molecule that I showed you and we have to make it more medicine like we have to build in potency and we have to make that molecule safe the second thing is that we got inspired by
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Distilling Jack Daniel's...
testing the fiery brew fresh off the still which is diluted with distilled water to reduce its potency before tasting it still has enough intensity of character now that you should be able to recognize the signature flavor characteristics but it minimizes any
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To help solve global...
Sometimes, this is for a lifetime. The problem is that vaccines are delicate organisms really, and they need to be stored between two degrees and eight degrees. And if you don't do that, they lose their potency, and they no longer confer the immunity
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Can we eat to starve...
and you can see clearly that the teas vary in their potency, from less potent to more potent. But what's very cool is when we combine the two less potent teas together, the combination, the blend, is more potent than either one alone.
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Can we eat to starve...
that we prepared and you can see clearly that the tea's vary in their potency from less potent to more potent but what's very cool is when we actually combine the two less potent teas together the combination the
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What commercialization...
consumers the problem users the wealthy white weed lobbyists and seriously they are almost all rich white men they know that we will consume more what they're selling if they jack up the potency they
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Yoav Medan: Ultrasound...
because we can actually think about prostate lumpectomy -- treating just the focal lesion and not removing the whole gland, and by that, avoiding all the issues with potency and incontinence.
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This is the World’s Most...
and creating joy many effects such as being anti cancers improving memory improving sexual potency and many other medical benefits have been found in Safra
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Dr. Dean Ornish: Your...
of early prostate cancer and, by extension, breast cancer, simply by making these changes. We've found that tumor growth in vitro was inhibited 70 percent in the group that made these changes, whereas only nine percent in the comparison group. These differences were highly significant. Even your sexual organs get more blood flow, so you increase sexual potency.
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The opportunity of...
to one of possibility -- or potency, to be even a little bit more dangerous -- we can release the power of so many more children, and invite them to engage their rare and valuable abilities with the community. Anthropologists tell us that the one thing we as humans have always required of our community members
Video examples
Quorum sensing: Bacteria...
this could form the foundation of a new type of therapeutic and so what we're doing in the lab right now is we're taking the molecule that I showed you and we have to make it more medicine like we have to build in potency and we have to make that molecule safe the second thing is that we got inspired by
Video examples
Distilling Jack Daniel's...
testing the fiery brew fresh off the still which is diluted with distilled water to reduce its potency before tasting it still has enough intensity of character now that you should be able to recognize the signature flavor characteristics but it minimizes any
Video examples
To help solve global...
Sometimes, this is for a lifetime. The problem is that vaccines are delicate organisms really, and they need to be stored between two degrees and eight degrees. And if you don't do that, they lose their potency, and they no longer confer the immunity
Video examples
Can we eat to starve...
and you can see clearly that the teas vary in their potency, from less potent to more potent. But what's very cool is when we combine the two less potent teas together, the combination, the blend, is more potent than either one alone.
Video examples
Can we eat to starve...
that we prepared and you can see clearly that the tea's vary in their potency from less potent to more potent but what's very cool is when we actually combine the two less potent teas together the combination the
Video examples
What commercialization...
consumers the problem users the wealthy white weed lobbyists and seriously they are almost all rich white men they know that we will consume more what they're selling if they jack up the potency they
Video examples
Yoav Medan: Ultrasound...
because we can actually think about prostate lumpectomy -- treating just the focal lesion and not removing the whole gland, and by that, avoiding all the issues with potency and incontinence.
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This is the World’s Most...
and creating joy many effects such as being anti cancers improving memory improving sexual potency and many other medical benefits have been found in Safra
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Dave Sitek
American Musician
Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach... love is close by... and you are not alone! With such potency, music should be treated with care. The sound, the feel, the presentation... everything! It is a medicine. It is a teacher!
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George C. Wolfe
American Playwright
I don't go, like, 'Hmm, I'm now going to create something for the black community.' I just feel this compelling urge. I just feel myself drawn to stories that I feel have a potency and immediacy.
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George Crumb
American Composer
If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.
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Frederick Banting
Canadian Scientist
The method of estimating the potency of insulin solutions is based on the effect that insulin produces upon the blood sugar of normal animals.
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Theodor Herzl
Hungarian Journalist
Palestine is our unforgettable historic home. The very name would be a force of marvelous potency for summoning our people together.
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Feist
Canadian Musician
There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.
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Karyn Kusama
American Director
For me, there's something about a certain kind of genre film that has real potency in its emotional landscape.
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Ralph Ellison
American Author
If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
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Yehudi Menuhin
American Musician
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.
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Learned Hand
American Judge
The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.
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Dave Sitek
American Musician
Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach... love is close by... and you are not alone! With such potency, music should be treated with care. The sound, the feel, the presentation... everything! It is a medicine. It is a teacher!
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George C. Wolfe
American Playwright
I don't go, like, 'Hmm, I'm now going to create something for the black community.' I just feel this compelling urge. I just feel myself drawn to stories that I feel have a potency and immediacy.
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George Crumb
American Composer
If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.
Quote examples
Frederick Banting
Canadian Scientist
The method of estimating the potency of insulin solutions is based on the effect that insulin produces upon the blood sugar of normal animals.
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Theodor Herzl
Hungarian Journalist
Palestine is our unforgettable historic home. The very name would be a force of marvelous potency for summoning our people together.
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Feist
Canadian Musician
There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.
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Karyn Kusama
American Director
For me, there's something about a certain kind of genre film that has real potency in its emotional landscape.
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Ralph Ellison
American Author
If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
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Yehudi Menuhin
American Musician
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.
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Learned Hand
American Judge
The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.
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