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
If, then, a part of the mass be latent, nutation will give too small a value.
From Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence by Bassnett, Thomas
If such an ideal be latent in the nature of man, it brings the order of the universe over to his side.
From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Jones, Henry, Sir
It can be cultivated by training, but the "germ" must be latent within the individual, in order that its development may be possible at all.
From The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal by Carrington, Hereward
