passively

Example Sentences

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Nor did he simply wait passively for the 1860 Republican presidential nomination to come his way: Rather than stress his “availability,” Lincoln’s supporters positioned him as “the Representative man of the West.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Approachable, practical counsel on how to make it, however, is no longer as passively accessible as it once was.

From Salon

He said France, and Europe at-large, will not “passively accept the law of the strongest,” and “We do prefer respect to bullies and we do prefer rule of law to brutality.”

From Salon

Those are followed by three more ETFs that are passively managed to track indexes that incorporate buybacks into their stock-selection methodology.

From MarketWatch

There are practical benefits to index inclusion, since funds passively tracking the Nasdaq-100 would have to buy up shares of new entrants.

From MarketWatch