passively

Example Sentences

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Technical issues with his second serve, and a tendency to play passively against the very best, also let him down.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

“That suggests Micron is trying to strengthen its position in the AI memory ecosystem, not just benefit passively from a shortage,” he said.

From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026

However, they weren’t just passively consuming this music, they also left their marks on it, quite literally.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

By the 1870s his work—often passively comfortable with the standard paysage, or horizontal format, and entranced by distant spectacles like sunsets or mountaintops—began to seem sedate to serious viewers.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 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