passive
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While investors may not consciously try to boost their European exposure, passive inflows into non-U.S. equities have returned, mostly through international allocations.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
The police report claimed that the Moroccan police deployment around the border "was clearly smaller than usual" and cited migrants who spoke of a "passive attitude" as the crossings happened.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Innanen: The thing about Paul Baker is, he’s so passive and laissez-faire with everything in his life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
But the filmmakers are more than just passive observers of an extroverted intellectual peacocking while the light is dying.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
His opening arrays were different every time, yet all the same—conservative, defensive, passive.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
In the case of “have died”, though, neither patients nor passives come into it.
From Economist ● May 24, 2018
Promoters, passives and detractors have vastly different economic value to most companies.
From Forbes ● Sep. 20, 2012
In their attitude toward integration, Little Rock's Protestant and Jewish clergymen can be classified as "pushers," "powers" and "passives."
From Time Magazine Archive
No English construction could have survived in the language for a millennium and a half unless it had continued to serve some purpose, and that includes passives and nominalizations.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
The problem with the passives that bog down bureaucratic and academic prose is that they are not selected with these purposes in mind.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing passive
Tier 2 Words for the SBAC ELA Items
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The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 5
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