latent
Example Sentences
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This latent threat changes how we relate to each over.
From BBC
Buried in the reddish soil of southern China lies latent power: one of the largest clusters of crucial rare earths is mined around the clock by a secretive and heavily guarded industry.
From Barron's
About one-quarter of the global population carries latent TB.
From Science Daily
"In short, a latent bug in a service underpinning our bot mitigation capability started to crash after a routine configuration change we made."
From Barron's
The analysts view it “as a relatively low-cost/risk strategy to take advantage of spot gold prices and latent mill capacity,” they say.
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