be latent
Example Sentences
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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
Must there not be latent evil to counterbalance some of the seeming good?
From The Young Mother Management of Children in Regard to Health by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
The power in him had ceased to be latent, and friend and foe were beginning to watch Lewis Rand and his doings with intentness.
From Lewis Rand by Johnston, Mary
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 Jones, Henry, Sir
