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be latent

verb as in exist

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It seems just as possible that what might appear to be latent desire for your exes and your friends’ husbands is just your brain’s natural tendency toward novelty.

From Slate

When Saskia Esken, one of the leaders of Diaby’s center-left Social Democratic Party, last week suggested that there might be “latent racism” in the police force, the backlash was fierce.

Is Gorsuch’s reasoning unconservative because it affirms broader protection to rights than the 1964 congressional majorities understood to be latent in the logic of their language?

The court sided with health officials, who maintained that isolating Ilyina was a necessary measure to stop the virus from spreading, claiming it can be latent in a person for up to 24 days.

“The Lunar New Year holiday in China has just begun and they say the virus could be latent for about a week. So at least for the next couple of weeks it will be difficult to gauge how much the new disease will have spread during the holiday,” said Shinichiro Kadota, senior FX strategist at Barclays.

From Reuters

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