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were passive
adjective
Being subjected to an action without producing a reaction.
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They were passive bystanders.
"Many people in the church were passive.
I thought we were passive and taking the jump shot instead of trying to explore".
We were passive once and now we are becoming active about our national identity," Zoabi said.
Goldie rejected the idea that welfare recipients were passive when it came to taking income support payments.
"We were passive in this moment and that is never good in football, never good in life," Klopp said.
They were "passive and compliant, almost to the point of collusion, in an attempt to avoid confrontation".
But it was very clear to me, at least, that we were passive observers.
And others were passive witnesses with no direct connection to the attack other than proximity.
They were, to that degree, successful audiences, because they were passive ones.
Outcome measures were passive and active biomechanical properties and semiquantitative morphometry.
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