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
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
This may seem a flat conclusion; but, in view of the last five years, may there not be latent significance in it?
From John Marr and Other Poems by Melville, Herman
This, as Gualino points out, accords with the general tendency for the emotions of the day to be latent in sleep.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism by Ellis, Havelock
