passive

Example Sentences

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Growth of active funds is also helping BlackRock increase the average fee it earns on new money coming into its predominantly passive iShares ETF business, the industry’s biggest, executives said on last month’s earnings call.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

“We still think of them as passive devices: We sit, we watch, that’s about it,” Or Goren, editor-in-chief of cord-cutting advocacy publication Cord Busters, wrote to me in an email.

From Slate • May 3, 2026

Fat cells, known as adipocytes, are not just passive storage units for excess weight.

From Science Daily • Apr. 30, 2026

Owing to the under-risked positioning of passive investors, Wilson believes the dips will be fleeting.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 27, 2026

As the linguist Geoffrey Pullum has noted, there is nothing wrong with a news report that uses the passive voice to say, “Helicopters were flown in to put out the fires.”

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker