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
This may seem a flat conclusion; but, in view of the last five years, may there not be latent significance in it?
From John Marr and Other Poems by Melville, Herman
If, then, a part of the mass be latent, nutation will give too small a value.
From Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence by Bassnett, Thomas
The missing minor term is however supposed to be latent in the transition from the conjunctive to the simple form of proposition.
From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph
