latent
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Near the hurricane's eyewall, the release of latent heat fuels powerful convection, causing warm, moist air to surge upward and form towering cumulonimbus clouds.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
Rombach, 33, helped develop latent diffusion, a breakthrough that underpins many of today's AI image-generation systems.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
“If an agent is optimizing 24/7,” Ryan added, “does that remove latent cash in the system?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Unfortunately, your phone’s app is more likely to try to satisfy that latent desire than to force you to understand how complex weather modeling really is.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
It sees the American Revolution as an incipient national movement with deep, if latent, origins in the colonial era.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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