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

Unused, any organ will atrophy, and so their capacity for sympathy may be latent and not easily roused.

From Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches by Pennell, T. L. (Theodore Leighton)

If the heavenly light be latent, It can need no earthly patent.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 by Various

A low potential, like instability of an internal secretion gland, may be latent, and not made manifest until the proper stimulus, the maximum amount of stress and strain, like accident, disease, shock or war, arrives.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.