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Boritz and co-workers used the devices to compare the active genes in individual latently infected CD4 cells from three HIV-positive people with the CD4 cells of three uninfected people.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 3, 2022

One of the show’s many jokes-in-passing is that the strong-willed and latently heroic Natasha is just as immature as the baby she finds herself caring for.

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2022

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

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