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What does passively mean?

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Adverb
  1. In a passive manner; without conscious or self-directed action.
  2. In an acquiescent manner; resignedly or submissively.
  3. (grammar) In the passive voice; having a passive construction.
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Many fish respond passively to a human hand, preferably ungloved, and it proved a simple task to shepherd the boarfish gently from its refuge.
But current practitioners also tend to argue that literature can only make an ideological statement by passively recirculating it.
Tiny children sit passively by their parents, too weak and languid to play or run around, as cars flash past them.
The sky seemed to look passively onward, black and dark like my pencil that had shaded it in.
A zombified society, passively allowing itself to be hypnotised by every cunning conman with a used monster to sell.
However, the majority of the bulging to accommodate the engulfed water undoubtedly occurs passively as a result of the inertia of the water.

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