passive
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It’s up to Batter to decide whether he will remain a passive character in his own story, or risk decisive action.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Those classified as "light process" users spent less than four to five hours a day using their phones for a mixture of social interaction, news, entertainment, and passive scrolling.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
These conditions tended to suit passive investment strategies better.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
They recorded more than 700 monal calls across both sites using microphones and passive recording devices and then measured pitch, call length and background noise levels for a year from April 2023.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
The Negro’s feeling of utter hopelessness is here replaced by a determined spirit of passive resistance.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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
The fourth subsection covers issues having to do with excessive abstraction, including overuse of nominalizations and passives.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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
Vocabulary lists containing passive
Tier 2 Words for the SBAC ELA Items
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The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 5
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