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passively

adverb as in indifferently

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Paul’s team claimed these hybrid animals would somehow make participants money by passively generating more Zoo Tokens.

From BBC

Private prison executives did not passively wait for their "unprecedented opportunity" to come.

From Salon

A disproportionate number not only did not even passively resist but showed themselves eager to lick the polish off Hitler’s jackboots, if necessary.

From Salon

He didn’t just passively watch the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone or the grindhouse films of the 1970s, he dissected them scene by scene.

From BBC

Whether you are dealing with Trump’s politics firsthand, or only absorbing it like second-hand smoke, passively and sometimes unwittingly, you are suffering.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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