latent
adjective
present but not visible, apparent, or activated; existing as potential.
latently
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a word derived from
latent.
Example Sentences
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Jurists and others without medical training are forced to predict the future behaviors of latently dangerous mental patients, relying on recommendations from psychiatrists who acknowledge that theirs is an inexact science.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 4, 2019
More and more, we recognize how disco latently pushed gay, urban culture into white suburbia, which is a more meaningful transgression than going on a British TV talk show and swearing at the host.
From New York Times ● May 23, 2016
Two new studies show that artificial antibodies could “redirect” the immune response to these latently infected cells and help drain those HIV reservoirs in the body.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 20, 2015
The Silicianos believed otherwise: that the viral particles were released by latently infected cells that had become activated.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 15, 2014
This feeling was similar, except it was my intellect that was weary and expanded, languid and latently powerful.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
