passivity
Example Sentences
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Passivity can be as impossible to capture on camera as the moon.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2025
Passivity regarding the lethal risk of ES is a challenging extra piece of the puzzle around football, racialization and death.
From Salon • Nov. 13, 2021
Passivity is naturally linked to the monotony of life adrift but also to hopelessness, which can set in rapidly and have fatal consequences.
From Scientific American • Apr. 16, 2021
Passivity doesn’t get you very far, either, or decency, or altruism.
From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2015
Passivity on the part of the clients had thus been encouraged throughout our expedition.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
Vocabulary lists containing passivity
Unit 3: Compelling Evidence
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Elie Wiesel's "Hope, Despair and Memory" (1986)
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The Bluest Eye
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