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
Whenever one is active, the other must be latent.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de
Unused, any organ will atrophy, and so their capacity for sympathy may be latent and not easily roused.
From Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches by Pennell, T. L. (Theodore Leighton)
It can be cultivated by training, but the "germ" must be latent within the individual, in order that its development may be possible at all.
From The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal by Carrington, Hereward
