be latent
Example Sentences
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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
The power in him had ceased to be latent, and friend and foe were beginning to watch Lewis Rand and his doings with intentness.
From Lewis Rand by Johnston, Mary
This, as Gualino points out, accords with the general tendency for the emotions of the day to be latent in sleep.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism by Ellis, Havelock
Sir W. Follett laid just as much stress on these scraps as Serjeant Buzfuz did on his: he even used the phrase, “it seems there may be latent love like latent heat, in these productions.”
From Bardell v. Pickwick by Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington
