inactively
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The committee recommended expanding the program to “all but the most inactively traded” stocks, ETFs and related derivatives.
From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 19, 2011
We're not abandoning the shuttle, but we're not going to wait inactively either.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Wright lingered inactively at Menindie, allowed the proper time for following out the track of Mr. Burke to glide away and disgracefully broke faith with one who had too generously trusted him.
From Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia by William John Wills
To me and to many others the thought that our country might stand by and watch inactively an attack upon France was intolerable.
From New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index by Various
If certain men who had attended yesterday's caucus still loafed inactively about the sidewalks, it was not because they were indifferent to possible developments, but in obedience to a settled plan.
From A Pagan of the Hills by Charles Neville Buck
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