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
There had to be latent, that is, the possibility of a different and higher mode of action.
From Progress and History by Marvin, Francis Sydney
On multinodal branchlets the inner nodes bear lateral buds which may be latent.
From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell
A low potential, like instability of an internal secretion gland, may be latent, and not made manifest until the proper stimulus, the maximum amount of stress and strain, like accident, disease, shock or war, arrives.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.
