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But a recent trend is capitalizing on our latent desires to actually become the famous people we love and love to hate.

So it carbonates all of these, I'd say latent desires, to have more meaning in his life.

Many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside the Negro, and he must release them.

It was more science faction, a monument to human potential—including the latent potential for self-destruction.

But the "Zoabiz" was a small reminder that latent chauvinism is alive and well.

Now listen to me, said the dying woman, aloud, as if making a great effort to revive one latent spark of energy.

That high-pressure engines owed their advantages mainly to a reduction of the relative importance of this latent heat.

In descending it is recondensed, and by the process by which its atoms are brought together its latent heat is made sensible.

Again she felt that everlasting calm, arguing such latent forces, was the thing she hated most in him.

But it possessed a latent purchasing power such as probably no other Government in history ever had.

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On this page you'll find 79 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to latent, such as: inherent, lurking, smoldering, suppressed, underlying, and unrealized.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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