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If we want to prevent others from your fate, we need to stop being so passive on these issues.

In a rather passive aggressive letter, the House Minority Leader wrote.

These “smart benches” can do more than simply serve as passive producers of electricity.

It turned Web surfers into passive consumers of published content.

More and more, Obama seems like a passive observer of events who dismisses criticism as superficial.

Passive hyperemia occurs most commonly in diseases of the heart and liver and in pregnancy.

In conversation their minds are apt to remain in a recipient passive state.

A purely passive defence is not possible for us; it implies losing ground by degrees—and we have not a yard to lose.

Whatever his secret care might have been, it was now passive; he was a general favourite, and courted in society.

And we shall not go there, to be idle—passive spectators to an invasion of South American rights.

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On this page you'll find 90 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to passive, such as: apathetic, indifferent, laid-back, nonviolent, quiet, and static.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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