passive

Example Sentences

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Investors continued to turn from active to passive management and from mutual funds to ETFs.

From Barron's

Rather than spreading only through passive release into surrounding tissue, viruses can exploit the body's own migratory machinery to move efficiently and systemically.

From Science Daily

Complaining can feel confrontational so many of us find ourselves making passive aggressive remarks or silently seething and then going home to vent online.

From BBC

The third lesson is on the importance of layering passive and active fire protection.

From The Wall Street Journal

To Joel Lewenstein, head of product design at Anthropic, AI slop is “generic content, undifferentiated content — something that optimizes for volume and passive consumption over everything else.”

From MarketWatch