passive

Example Sentences

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However, real-world contexts can also be passive, such as the environment you are in.

From Science Daily

Paramount has described the funds as largely passive investors, saying the royal families would not have input into corporate decision-making.

From Los Angeles Times

“In an environment where liquidity remains thin and trading is increasingly concentrated in passive vehicles, these reallocations can have an outsize impact on price action,” he said.

From MarketWatch

Ricciardi would like to see some kind of compromise, between passive investors just setting automatic investments and overconfident investors trying to do too much on their own.

From MarketWatch

Before Lamarck, naturalists saw organisms as passive, depending on supernatural intervention for their merest actions as well as their very existence.

From The Wall Street Journal