potent
adjective
powerful; mighty.
potently
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a word derived from
potent.
Example Sentences
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But Ru Marshall’s hefty biography, “American Trickster,” reveals the depth of his deception — and, just as potently, how easily people can be taken in by it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
Our critic praised it as “a potently moving drama . . . about loss, forgiveness and redemption.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025
However, Prof. Muttenthaler's team has successfully created oxytocin compounds that are fully gut-stable yet can still potently and selectively activate the oxytocin receptor.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2024
This trope has been displayed in various ways throughout the years but it was perhaps first potently branded in the American mind in 1937 with the Michael Curtiz film "Mountain Justice."
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2024
All this soon became potently evident to Joe Rantz and the other boys trying out for the University of Washington’s freshman crew in the fall of 1933.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
