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Rather than passively receiving information, the brain continually uses patterns and previous experience to anticipate what might happen next.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

Even people who know very little about finance typically know that stock-picking funds rarely beat a low-cost fund that passively follows “the index,” and that costs really matter a lot to your long-term returns.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

Much of its domestic bond portfolio is invested passively, and shifting more assets into domestic bonds would come at a sizeable fiscal cost if it requires selling equities, he adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 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 unicorn appeared to offer no opposition, waiting, passively, so Tristran attempted to clamber up onto it.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman