1
as in acquiescence
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as in inertia
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Recent Examples of passivity
Or does so only briefly in the ambiguous ending, when Sofia throws off the last vestiges of her passivity and forces her recalcitrant mother into a reckoning with her condition.
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David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2025
Both types of blindness encourage passivity, when what is needed is action.
—Big Think, 5 Feb. 2025
There’s little Victorian stuffiness to this Watson, and much of the character’s bumbling passivity from previous adaptations has been shorn off to make room for modern, urgent frustration.
—Rory Doherty, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
The performance suggests a peacefully harrowing tangle, an inner hurricane of outward passivity, qualities that determine much of the movie’s architecture.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2025
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David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2025
Both types of blindness encourage passivity, when what is needed is action.
—Big Think, 5 Feb. 2025
There’s little Victorian stuffiness to this Watson, and much of the character’s bumbling passivity from previous adaptations has been shorn off to make room for modern, urgent frustration.
—Rory Doherty, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
The performance suggests a peacefully harrowing tangle, an inner hurricane of outward passivity, qualities that determine much of the movie’s architecture.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for passivity
Noun
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Small states have risen to power on first-mover advantages, often with the acquiescence or benign neglect of larger states.—
Kurt M. Campbell,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Apr. 2025
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What the character arrives at though is violent retribution, which feels like an unimaginative acquiescence to familiar pulp storytelling.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
18 Mar. 2025
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Someone who is depressed can often wake up feeling fatigued, and the sleep inertia that normally lasts around 20 minutes for someone who is not depressed can instead last several hours, Harvey said.—
Taylor Nicioli,
CNN,
14 Mar. 2025
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Clark points to cost, complexity, and inertia.—
Dan Pontefract,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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Only today are the costs of our apathy fully apparent.—
Alexander Nazaryan,
New York Times,
4 Apr. 2025
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Symptoms include depression, disinterest in the job, listlessness, apathy, insomnia, stomach upset, headache and dizziness.—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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After all, this will go to the very Supreme Court that declared, when overruling Chevron, that courts owe no deference to the executive branch when interpreting statutes.—
Cristian Farias,
New Yorker,
10 Apr. 2025
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With an about-face and flattery, executives hoped this time around that Mr. Trump might show tech more deference, including it in his efforts to deregulate industries like energy and autos.—
Cecilia Kang,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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For example, the leader can personally hold the virtues of humility and confidence simultaneously for greater impact.—
Gregory Crawford,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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Giving cash as a form of humility Many who work with GiveDirectly see its cash model as a form of humility.—
Erika Page,
Christian Science Monitor,
8 Apr. 2025
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In 1994 of this reimagined America, Michelle (Brown) is a rebellious foster teen who lost her family in a car accident and wants nothing to do with people, most of whom mainly exist in a VR stupor powered by Skate’s Apple-esque mega company.—
Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
14 Mar. 2025
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But Billy seems to be coming out of his post-Claudia stupor and recognizes that Olympia is picking Matty for her big assignments repeatedly.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
30 Jan. 2025
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As part of his tightening grip on power, and his assault on 200-plus years of checks and balances, President Trump has bludgeoned some of the nation’s leading law firms into shameful submission, extracting hundreds of millions of dollars worth of free legal work for his pet causes.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Apr. 2025
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This budget is not a final submission and anything that is submitted would need the approval of Congress to be implemented.—
Nathaniel Weixel,
The Hill,
17 Apr. 2025
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But she was bothered by the attendant weight gain and lethargy.—
Sarah Stillman,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
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Other symptoms of milk allergy can include vomiting, diarrhea, rectal bleed, lethargy, etc.—
Newsweek Staff,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Apr. 2025
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“Passivity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/passivity. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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