"They have discovered that this is an incredibly potent tool for selling".
This is a potent tool for targeting individuals, exemplified by the revelations concerning Cambridge Analytica.
Numeric simulation is a potent tool for solving engineering problems.
Some educators see fiction as a particularly potent tool for engaging with volatile topics and instilling empathy in young readers.
But they also hinted that formal statements, once a potent tool for managing currency markets but now more general in nature, would soon end.
This could be a potent tool for a newsroom (we are building one at Les Echos that will primarily benefit our news team).
The federal whistle-blower law, known as the False Claims Act, has been a potent tool for keeping government contractors honest since it was last amended in 1986.
Interestingly, this vector appears to be a potent tool for gene transfer into human neural progeny.
In turn, the insurgents and criminal gangs — distinguishing among them has become increasingly problematic — have transformed the trucking trade into a potent tool for smuggling.
Social media is a potent tool for change, one that upends the collective action dynamics that, until now, have constrained Arab citizens.
Tourism can be a potent tool for boosting a local economy — if done right, with a conscience, a vision and a plan.
