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
This may seem a flat conclusion; but in view of the last five years, may there not be latent significance in it?
From Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by Melville, Herman
On multinodal branchlets the inner nodes bear lateral buds which may be latent.
From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell
Must there not be latent evil to counterbalance some of the seeming good?
From The Young Mother Management of Children in Regard to Health by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
