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"potential embarrassment" is a perfectly acceptable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to express that someone might be embarrassed in a situation, or that an action might have embarrassing results. For example: "I didn't want to participate in the talent show because of the potential embarrassment of performing in front of the whole school".
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This spares the local government potential embarrassment.
The pitfalls of potential embarrassment in this music are everywhere.
The Frenchman seems aware of that potential embarrassment.
The fear is of potential embarrassment and/or rejection.
Yet this potential embarrassment is the least of Forest's worries.
The committee's website has avoided any potential embarrassment by remaining entirely in Chinese.
The potential "embarrassment or exposure" of police officers was not a consideration, she said.
They might also worry about the potential embarrassment it brings for the family.
Coming on the eve of the opening, the decision is a potential embarrassment for the Los Angeles museum.
But Paramount has been fighting to ward off potential embarrassment foretold by online predictions that its "G.I.
"Lindsay Lohan is a potential embarrassment for them," said Steven Cohn, the editor of Media Industry Newsletter.
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