passively
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The flip side: Museums say they’re using AI-assisted video surveillance to help guards scour for potential bad actors by analyzing people’s behavior as they move through the galleries rather than recording footage passively.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Rather than passively consuming a finished narrative, audiences actively participate in constructing and navigating the environment itself.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
Monroe said that he had seen “numbers ranging from 50% to 70%” as estimates for the percentage of money invested in the small-cap space through passively managed index funds, up from roughly 20% in 2002.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Those sports have longer-established history in the states and came of age at a time when media was not as pervasive "and when people spent their leisure time doing things, not passively consuming things".
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
The tall, thin master looked at me passively.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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