be latent
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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
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)
These qualities may be latent in Lincoln, but do not yet come to daylight.
From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count
Inasmuch as the accident of your shipwreck in the Seine is well known, and since the whole thing may be latent in our brains, could you please give us other facts?
From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille
