latent
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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
It adds, however, that Russia “is in no position to make a bid for European hegemony” because European allies dwarf it in terms of population, economy, and thus latent military power.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
The additional cases of latent TB have been identified in people within the school community.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026
The new proslavery argument, then, drew on assumptions about the white Anglo-Saxon character of the emerging American nation that were latent but long-standing.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing latent
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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