passive

Example Sentences

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However, real-world contexts can also be passive, such as the environment you are in.

From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026

Paramount has described the funds as largely passive investors, saying the royal families would not have input into corporate decision-making.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

Ricciardi would like to see some kind of compromise, between passive investors just setting automatic investments and overconfident investors trying to do too much on their own.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 21, 2026

Before Lamarck, naturalists saw organisms as passive, depending on supernatural intervention for their merest actions as well as their very existence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

On the pig farm, that passive blankness returned.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden