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 had to be latent, that is, the possibility of a different and higher mode of action.
From Progress and History by Marvin, Francis Sydney
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
It can be cultivated by training, but the "germ" must be latent within the individual, in order that its development may be possible at all.
From The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal by Carrington, Hereward
