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latent

[leyt-nt] / ˈleɪt nt /


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The third reason AI worsens investors’ latent action bias: AI models tend to overly agree with users.

From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026

Patients may be exposed to EBV through donor organs that carry a latent form of the virus.

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026

She wants to show how there’s latent wisdom to the rule that was incorporated into this history.

From Slate • Apr. 1, 2026

Such clout also made Zhang a potential alternate power center to Xi, who has routinely neutered even latent threats to his dominance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026

I jerked the jug to my mouth and took a huge gulp of cider in relief, and the violence latent in the day drifted away; perhaps the Naguamsett carried it out on the receding tide.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles




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