passively

Example Sentences

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Passively managed index funds, by definition, always hit their benchmarks.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2021

Passively watching the action unfold just isn't in the DNA of a great game.

From BBC • May 1, 2019

Passively, he hungered for another orbit between two poles that would let him live again; for a new mode of life that would catch him up with the tension of hate and love.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

Passively and inertly they have allowed their store of provisions to grow less and less, until they have been forced to capitulate, without their defences having been stormed, or the cannon silenced.

From Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Labouchere, Henry

Passively he let me take his arm, and I bound it up as well as I could.

From Cord and Creese by De Mille, James