passive
Example Sentences
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As for Keogh the lint-roller magnate, he says his operation wasn’t so passive at first.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026
Rocco said the U.S. listing makes Hynix “eligible for major domestic tech and semiconductor indices,” meaning passive ETFs will have to heavily buy the ADRs to keep up.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 25, 2026
Many turn to a profusion of platforms allowing people to squeeze income from their assets that is potentially passive.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026
"These discoveries show that early humans were not simply passive observers of natural fires," Dr. Kolska Horwitz explained.
From Science Daily • Jun. 24, 2026
In chapter 2 we saw one of the benefits of the passive, namely that the agent of the event, expressed in the fiy-phrase, can go unmentioned.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing passive
Tier 2 Words for the SBAC ELA Items
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The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 5
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The New SAT: Words to Capture Tone
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