inactively
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The committee recommended expanding the program to “all but the most inactively traded” stocks, ETFs and related derivatives.
From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 19, 2011
We're not abandoning the shuttle, but we're not going to wait inactively either.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have known fear in my time—the fear of the night, of tumultuous sea, of shot-ploughed space to be traversed inactively and slowly, so my assurance is no braggadocio, but the simple truth.
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro
All else being equal, he had a little rather strengthen Mime's chances of getting the Ring, through Siegfried, than inactively see it fall to the inveterate enemy, Alberich.
From The Wagnerian Romances by Gertrude Hall Brownell
If certain men who had attended yesterday's caucus still loafed inactively about the sidewalks, it was not because they were indifferent to possible developments, but in obedience to a settled plan.
From A Pagan of the Hills by Charles Neville Buck
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