latent

Example Sentences

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"Cardiac disease can have what we call a latent period – it may not manifest at the time of a screen and instead happen down the line," says Augustine.

From BBC

What’s missing is any account of the mechanisms that translate latent capacity into sustained strategic effect.

From The Wall Street Journal

This latent threat changes how we relate to each over.

From BBC

The rest pulls at the strings of the audience’s latent anxiety, waiting for the other shoe to drop.

From Salon

Buried in the reddish soil of southern China lies latent power: one of the largest clusters of crucial rare earths is mined around the clock by a secretive and heavily guarded industry.

From Barron's