passively

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Technical issues with his second serve, and a tendency to play passively against the very best, also let him down.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

However, they weren’t just passively consuming this music, they also left their marks on it, quite literally.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

By the 1870s his work—often passively comfortable with the standard paysage, or horizontal format, and entranced by distant spectacles like sunsets or mountaintops—began to seem sedate to serious viewers.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

This process suggests that dreams actively reconstruct reality rather than passively reflect it.

From Science Daily • Apr. 28, 2026

If Burr’s intention was to threaten him with the possibility of a duel, Hamilton was not disposed to submit passively to such threats.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis