"potentially" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- That was not enough for neighbors of the old wood-treating plant, fearful that their backyards had become contaminated by dioxin, a potentially cancer-causing agent.
- Studies have confirmed that silicone breast implants with polyurethane plastic coatings break down and send potentially cancer-causing chemicals into women's bodies in small amounts, Federal officials said today.
- The issues in human gene therapy are complex because the treatment involves manipulating human genes and the use of potentially cancer-causing viruses to deliver genes to patients.
- Normally, I would agree that potentially cancer-causing substances in widely and regularly used products should be banned, but this is a case of melodramatic overreaction.
- PCBs are potentially cancer-causing in people and build up in the fat of fish and animals, increasing in concentration as they move up the food chain.
- The bill would eliminate the current absolute prohibition against potentially cancer-causing residues, no matter how slight, in certain processed foods.
- But it makes no sense to house them in a dense residential area where so many lives are at risk and mistakes - radioactive, potentially cancer-causing mistakes - continue to be made.
- The potentially cancer-causing asbestos was found in mud and sediment spewed out during the explosion of a 24-inch Con Edison steam pipe last Saturday evening.
- That life was shattered on Aug. 19, when a steam-pipe explosion on 20th Street near Third Avenue showered her apartment building with potentially cancer-causing asbestos that had insulated the pipe.
- The Frisa amendment, the literature said, required new testing for potentially cancer-causing substances that mimic estrogen and are found in water.
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