be latent
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Ben thought the sightings might also be latent memories of the summer he’d spent with Mike in London.
From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2013
The Du Ponts rushed work on a plant at Clinchfield, W. Va., for research toward other revolutionary discoveries besides "synthol" thought to be latent in the new formulae.
From Time Magazine Archive
If such an ideal be latent in the nature of man, it brings the order of the universe over to his side.
From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Sir Henry Jones
Unused, any organ will atrophy, and so their capacity for sympathy may be latent and not easily roused.
From Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches by T. L. (Theodore Leighton) Pennell
Hotness can not be latent, as the clown finds when he pockets the poker.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various
