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
There may be latent in si donatam some proper name, as Dodonam or Macedoniam, but it is not possible to extract it now.
From The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Shuckburgh, Evelyn S.
If the heavenly light be latent, It can need no earthly patent.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 by Various
This, as Gualino points out, accords with the general tendency for the emotions of the day to be latent in sleep.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism by Ellis, Havelock
