passive
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Dimensional Fund Advisors, which advocates passive investing, studied actively managed stock mutual funds between 1991 and 2020.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
These results show that astrocytes are not passive helpers.
From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026
Overall, passive indexed mutual funds and ETFs received $232.9 billion in new money, and active funds only $97.6 billion.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
But Paramount has insisted that its foreign backers will only have passive roles and will not have board seats or any voting interest in the combined company.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026
The new philosophers regarded matter as the passive recipient of a divine shaping and denied the existence of Aristotelian forms.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing passive
Tier 2 Words for the SBAC ELA Items
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