potential problem

collocation in English

meanings of potentialand problem

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potential
adjective[before noun]
uk /pəˈten.ʃəl/ us /poʊˈten.ʃəl/
possible when the necessary ...
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problem
noun[C]
uk /ˈprɒb.ləm/ us /ˈprɑː.bləm/
a situation, person, or thing that needs attention and needs to be dealt with ...
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Examples of potential problem

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They may have difficulty thinking through a problem, identifying potentialproblem-solving options, and choosing the best one.
An important potentialproblem is anthelmintic resistance seen in programmes that depend exclusively on the administration of a single drug for many years.
Although symptomatic recurrences are greatly reduced with suppressive therapy, there remains a potentialproblem of asymptomatic viral shedding.
The use of experienced experimenters to make judgments raises a potentialproblem that experimenter expectations could influence the results.
Another potentialproblem with observational studies such as ours is that for many species the juveniles are likely to be clumped around adult trees.
Confusion between burials in the two series is a potentialproblem for future scholarship.
A potentialproblem with these experiments is that they are themselves handed.
Another potentialproblem of the syntactic criteria is that they rely heavily on the use of pattern-matching equations.
This intervention focuses on three potentialproblem areas: role disputes, role transitions, and interpersonal deficits.
This article proceeds by examining each potentialproblem in turn.
As for abstraction, there is also a potentialproblem in having a mismatch in the relative accuracy of different parts of the system.
Our use of combined cross-section and time-series data reduces but does not eliminate this potentialproblem.
The structure of the potentialproblem is known, but the way in which the problem might play out during the contract period is not.
This is a potentialproblem in many departments because space is often limited.
A second potentialproblem is to do with colloquial versus literary speech.
One of the strengths of the measurement of resistance to change is that ordinarily the potential problem of different units of behavior (operants) is circumvented.
But before we come to the process-based approach, let me point out another potentialproblem for definitions of the type exemplified above.
This obviates the potentialproblem from attempting percutaneous access in an anticoagulated patient.
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