passively
Example Sentences
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His mantra for individual investors is to use passively managed funds.
From MarketWatch
RNA-based monitoring may offer an advantage because cancer cells actively secrete RNA rather than passively shedding DNA.
From Science Daily
Nor did he simply wait passively for the 1860 Republican presidential nomination to come his way: Rather than stress his “availability,” Lincoln’s supporters positioned him as “the Representative man of the West.”
Approachable, practical counsel on how to make it, however, is no longer as passively accessible as it once was.
From Salon
He said France, and Europe at-large, will not “passively accept the law of the strongest,” and “We do prefer respect to bullies and we do prefer rule of law to brutality.”
From Salon
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