passively
Example Sentences
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Buyers are willing to secure memory supply at higher prices while memory suppliers are rather passively taking higher prices proposed by customers, they note.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026
"Canada is actively taking on the world as it is, not passively waiting for a world we wish to be," he told journalists in Sydney.
From Barron's • Mar. 3, 2026
RNA-based monitoring may offer an advantage because cancer cells actively secrete RNA rather than passively shedding DNA.
From Science Daily • Feb. 17, 2026
Approachable, practical counsel on how to make it, however, is no longer as passively accessible as it once was.
From Salon • Jan. 30, 2026
Ignatius watched passively while Mr. Gonzalez squatted on his other side.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
