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"If future clinical studies confirm the findings, indigo-enriched lighting could become a safe, passive and scalable way to help reduce childhood myopia risk."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

The other two were passive smoking and prolonged night work.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

The court highlighted the role of night work, exposure to ionising radiation and passive smoking.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

That is a far cry from the pre-financial-crisis landscape: In 2007, assets in active equity funds outnumbered those in passive strategies by more than three to one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

All the monkeys in these cages were infected with Ebola virus, and most of them were silent, passive, and withdrawn, although one or two of them seemed queerly deranged.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

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

Actives and passives differ in which character gets to be the subject, and hence which starts out in the reader’s mental spotlight.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

That’s why guidelines on how to avoid legalese and other turbid professional styles call for using first- and second-person pronouns, inverting passives into actives, and letting verbs be verbs rather than zombie nouns.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker