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latent

[leyt-nt] / ˈleɪt nt /


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The third reason AI worsens investors’ latent action bias: AI models tend to overly agree with users.

From MarketWatch May 11, 2026

Patients may be exposed to EBV through donor organs that carry a latent form of the virus.

From Science Daily Apr. 15, 2026

She wants to show how there’s latent wisdom to the rule that was incorporated into this history.

From Slate Apr. 1, 2026

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that up to 13 million people nationwide live with latent TB.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 3, 2026

Ever since the end of the nineteenth century, the problem of what to do with the surplus of consumption goods has been latent in industrial society.

From "1984" by George Orwell




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