latent
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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
Such clout also made Zhang a potential alternate power center to Xi, who has routinely neutered even latent threats to his dominance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026
A person with active TB can develop symptoms and is infectious; a person with a latent tuberculosis infection cannot spread the bacteria to others and doesn’t feel sick.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026
On one ride a latent terror of heights suddenly overwhelmed an otherwise peaceful man named Wherritt.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Vocabulary lists containing latent
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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