How to Use latent in a Sentence

latent

1 of 2 adjective

• Next is the latent stage, where there are no signs of infection.
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 28 May 2019
• Namely, when will the nation tire of playing Russian roulette with guns and the latent killers who walk among us?
  — Phillip Morris, cleveland.com, 4 Mar. 2018
• Someone else sets off a latent dirty bomb in space and our satellites are taken out.
  — Kristina Libby, Popular Mechanics, 10 Dec. 2019
• The suit also states that no latent fingerprints were recovered from the knife nor the knife’s sheath.
  — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2018
• Peso Pluma clearly knows how to hear the latent right-now in the music of yesterday.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2023
• Pujols had drawn a walk and showed off some latent speed by stealing second base.
  — Maria Torres, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2019
• Many of us grew up camping in a VW bus, sparking both a love of the outdoors and a latent affinity toward life on the road.
  — Megan Barber, Curbed, 9 May 2018
• For example, leaking pipes in the walls would be a latent defect.
  — Gary Singer, Sun Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2023
• About a quarter of the world’s population has such latent TB.
  — The Economist, 14 Dec. 2019
• There has been a continuous, latent danger of an attack in the whole of Germany.
  — Zeke Turner, WSJ, 7 Apr. 2018
• In touting the gains from the border closure, however, its latent costs should not be ignored.
  — Stephen Onyeiwu, Quartz Africa, 28 Oct. 2019
• Government should work with the people, not against them, to unlock latent potential in the earth, in schools, in labs, in factories, in cities.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 10 June 2023
• Howe recently had a baby and fears a latent raisin-handing-out gene may be getting ready to show itself.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2019
• The piece begins as a slow dirge, then accelerates into a kind of battle charge — the episode climaxes in a call to war for the latent rebels in Ferrix.
  — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• This also speaks to a latent tension between the royal family and the media.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2024
• Over the six months since the raid of his home, Paras had remained in denial, putting on a defiant face but quietly living in a state of latent terror.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
• Bets by hedge funds against Italian bonds have risen to levels not seen since the financial crisis, in a reminder of latent risks in the eurozone.
  — Laurence Fletcher, WSJ, 25 May 2018
• Myers’ latent power is his best trait, but that’s less valuable in a San Diego lineup loaded with plenty of thump.
  — Michael Shapiro, SI.com, 27 June 2019
• One employee in Philadelphia calls the cops on a pair of black men and employees across the nation are kind of assumed to be latent racists.
  — Fox News, 20 Apr. 2018
• When the immune system drops its guard, these latent viruses can start replicating again.
  — Alice Park, Time, 2 July 2019
• There’s a latent metaphor here, waiting to explode into drama.
  — Julia M. Klein, Philly.com, 5 June 2018
• And yes: Carell was good too, mining just a little bit of the latent pathetic Michael Scott, but for a guy who actually had power.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 21 Dec. 2018
• But in the model's latent space, the image has characteristics of both the original and the poison concept, which leads the model astray when trained on the data.
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 25 Oct. 2023
• But the lab results didn’t turn up latent fingerprints or DNA, so agents can’t compare anything to the possible suspect pool.
  — Colleen Long and Michael Balsamo, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
• Tiang’s play often teases out the issues of identity latent in such moments.
  — Han Zhang, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2023
• There's no need to clutter up the crowded latent space with information that doesn't change from one image to another.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 16 Dec. 2019
• There’s always a potential that there’s a latent problem later on.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Nov. 2023
• Taking medicines for latent TB infection can cure the infection and keep these people from getting sick.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Nov. 2023
• Speech is latent as well as actualized with a potency far greater than any atomic bomb.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 8 Dec. 2023
• India and Japan both send two companies each to the Asia Future 30, reflecting the latent potential in both these economies to innovate.
  — Fang Ruan, Fortune Asia, 20 Mar. 2024

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latent

2 of 2 noun

• The latent phase: Can lie dormant for decades in nerve cells near the head and spine.
  — USA Today, 23 May 2022
• Their projects are a combination of the chefs’ latent passions and the kitchens that gave them space to thrive.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 May 2021
• The disruption of Amy sees Cedric and Jean-Michel face up to their latent sexism.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2022
• Fogel and Ashford tease out the latent horror in the story.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2023
• And then it was awakened when [Jay’s character’s wife] died and all of these latent feelings came up to the surface.
  — Danielle Turchiano, Variety, 20 Aug. 2021
• This sculpture explores an idea of latent potential, the past and the future.
  — Nadja Sayej, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
• After the election, some of these latent strains in the tactical world became more overt.
  — Rachel Monroe, Wired, 15 Jan. 2021
• For now, the problem of the hop latent viroid has largely fallen to growers themselves.
  — Dan Adams, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2022
• When his secret past comes back to haunt him, a small-town stoner must use his latent, deadly skills to prevent the CIA from taking him out.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021
• So will latent cases, where the bacteria remains dormant in the body.
  — Emily Schwing, Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2022
• Dig deep to unearth valuable skills and latent talents.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 23 Aug. 2020
• Rothoff said that the majority of people with TB have the latent form of TB, and will go decades without having any symptoms.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 11 July 2020
• The latent phase: High-risk HPV can hide in the affected skin or mucous membrane for several years.
  — AZCentral.com, 5 May 2022
• The impetus wasn’t quite on the level of the shelter-at-home mandates that inspired so many of us to rekindle latent skills, or create new ones, in the last few months—but close.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al, 24 Nov. 2020
• Today, Apollo and Zeus were taking the day off, Weinstein said, while the doors were kept wide open to dissipate any latent smoke.
  — Doug Smithsenior Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2022
• Yet there was a doubleness about him in matters of eros that chimes, for me, with the latent ardors and explicit constraints of his painting.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
• Our mission is to discover the latent talent of the subculture.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 6 July 2022
• Nicholas Cage has never been better than in this self-parody of his latent career.
  — ELLE, 22 Dec. 2022
• One new strategy to get around this involves shocking the latent viruses out of hiding.
  — Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2021
• The pandemic has ramped up the latent efforts that were in development.
  — Alex Kulitski, Forbes, 8 June 2021
• And there’s tremendous latent demand — especially in a place where the economy has been strong — for road space.
  — Kara Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2022
• Some latent viruses like HPV are well understood to cause certain types of cancers.
  — AZCentral.com, 5 May 2022
• Ray had cancer and Maria was dealing with paralysis on one side of her body due to a latent spinal deformity.
  — Olivia Solon, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2021
• Now, Yiddishe Pirat is kind of retracing back to the Epstein Brothers, more of the traditional drum beats, more of a latent life.
  — Annie Nickoloff, cleveland, 16 June 2022
• The violence in Levenson’s tidy glass pieces, which also contain razor blades and tufts of sharp wire, is latent.
  — Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2021
• Early in the pandemic, my latent desire for an at-home audio sleep aid swelled to an absolute need.
  — Parker Hall, Wired, 20 June 2021
• Cells can only take full advantage of these latent changes, however, when the memory is called to mind again.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 Nov. 2020
• Some researchers want to understand how stress causes latent viruses to reemerge.
  — USA Today, 23 May 2022
• For more latent datasets, understand the compliance requirements, provided the data is traceable back to its source, and then vet the data.
  — Bill Bruno, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• Velma began three or four years ago when Kaling was invited to peruse the Warner Bros. catalog and unearthed a latent affinity with Velma.
  — WIRED, 28 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024