passively
Example Sentences
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But businesses are not passively watching this unfold.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
After an initial meeting where I summarized our financial situation and heard the firm’s investing and planning philosophy—a systematic approach focused on growth using primarily passively managed index mutual funds—I was ready to sign on.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Rather than passively consuming a finished narrative, audiences actively participate in constructing and navigating the environment itself.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
Those sports have longer-established history in the states and came of age at a time when media was not as pervasive "and when people spent their leisure time doing things, not passively consuming things".
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
The process of selection, notably, acts on a physical or biological attribute—and the underlying genes are selected passively as a result.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
