passively

Example Sentences

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Passively managed index funds, by definition, always hit their benchmarks.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2021

Passively watching the action unfold just isn't in the DNA of a great game.

From BBC • May 1, 2019

Passively, he hungered for another orbit between two poles that would let him live again; for a new mode of life that would catch him up with the tension of hate and love.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

Passively she was about uttering her assentation, when the door of the room was thrown open, and two men entered.

From Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

Passively gentle, sweet, amiable, she always was, but not emotional, not demonstrative.

From A Life Sentence A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline