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She plays a passive role in their relationship.passive = accepting what happens without trying to take control
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Watching television is too passive for me. I prefer more active hobbies.
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Martin Luther King is famous for bringing about change through passive resistance.
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The initiates' passive faces stare back at me. (source)passive = not assertive (showing no tendency to take action)
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Beside the water, not a hundred yards away, the Spirit Bear stood watching him with a fearless and passive stare. (source)
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He looked up and saw a body, drifting passively.† (source)passively = in an inactive manner (accepting what happens without trying to take control or reacting strongly)
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Such passive, pale words for what she was.† (source)
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I watched them trundle passively on.† (source)passively = in an inactive manner (accepting what happens without trying to take control or reacting strongly)
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Passive resistance, my hind foot ...† (source)Passive resistance = resistance in a non-violent, non-controlling manner -- for example, when someone peacefully sits in a place they are not allowed and refuses to move until they are arrested and carried away
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All passiveness and unconcern had dropped from them.† (source)passiveness = acceptance of what happens without trying to take control or reacting stronglystandard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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During scenes that didn't involve my character, the simulation cut to a passive third-person perspective, and all I had to do was sit back and watch things play out, sort of like watching a cut scene in an old videogame.† (source)
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Angela was passively happy to be going to the dance, but not really interested in Eric.† (source)passively = in an inactive manner (accepting what happens without trying to take control or reacting strongly)
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At the ANC annual conference in Bloemfontein, the organization adopted the league's Program of Action, which called for boycotts, strikes, stay-at-homes, passive resistance, protest demonstrations, and other forms of mass action.† (source)passive resistance = resistance in a non-violent, non-controlling manner -- for example, when someone peacefully sits in a place they are not allowed and refuses to move until they are arrested and carried away
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She knew in advance what form they would take—the gradual cessation of the inner throb, the soft approach of passiveness, as though an invisible hand made magic passes over her in the darkness.† (source)passiveness = acceptance of what happens without trying to take control or reacting strongly
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And to not have to see a psychiatrist, who explains to me about being "passive aggressive."† (source)
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And if I got into trouble by accident, I wouldn't dare just wait passively to be saved.† (source)passively = in an inactive manner (accepting what happens without trying to take control or reacting strongly)
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