Sample Sentences for
latent
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    ...has many pent up resentments and latent frustrations,  (source)
    latent = potentially existing but not presently evident or active
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    In addition to papism, the Reverend probably suspected this noisy creature of latent femaleness.  (source)
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    ...and there was a certain strained hospitality in the way both the faculty and students worked to get along with the leathery recruiting officers who kept appearing on the campus. There was no latent snobbery in us; we didn't find any in them. It was only that we could feel a deep and sincere difference between us and them,  (source)
    latent = unexpressed (potentially existing, but not active)
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    They have, though; the words and the ideas have lain 'latent' in their consciousness, but now, when all caution and all censorship have let go, they are surfacing.  (source)
    latent = potentially existing but not presently evident or active
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    And, later on, other forms of cancer besides leukemia, with longer periods of latency, were showing up at higher than normal rates:  (source)
    latency = the amount of time before something that exists is evident or active
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    His severe black suit, with fine ruffled shirt and trousers smartly strapped beneath high insteps, was oddly at variance with his physique and face, for he was foppishly groomed, the clothes of a dandy on a body that was powerful and latently dangerous in its lazy grace.†  (source)
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    Some of these latencies should be summarized because they become important later on.†  (source)
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    As for the problem of overproduction, which has been latent in our society since the development of machine technique, it is solved by the device of continuous warfare...  (source)
    latent = potentially existing but not presently evident or active
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    When two people talk, their volume and pitch fall into balance. What linguists call speech rate — the number of speech sounds per second — equalizes. So does what is known as latency, the period of lime that lapses between the moment one speaker stops talking and the moment the other speaker begins.  (source)
    latency = the amount of time before something that exists is active
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    This feeling was similar, except it was my intellect that was weary and expanded, languid and latently powerful.†  (source)
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    Shut Not Your Doors Shut not your doors to me proud libraries, For that which was lacking on all your well-fill'd shelves, yet needed most, I bring, Forth from the war emerging, a book I have made, The words of my book nothing, the drift of it every thing, A book separate, not link'd with the rest nor felt by the intellect, But you ye untold latencies will thrill to every page.†  (source)
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    As though I were beginning to be able to use that power I feel I've got inside me–that extra, latent power.  (source)
    latent = potentially existing but not presently evident or active
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    That's because the virus has a three-week latency period.†  (source)
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