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
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.
Every man must have his philosophy of life, simply because he must act; though, in many cases, that philosophy may be latent and unconscious, or, at least, not a definite object of reflection.
From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Jones, Henry, Sir
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
