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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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Veronica has no regard for puritanical ideologies or passively sexless females in her quest for self-realization through sexual freedom.
Instead of using body heat to directly incubate eggs, megapodes passively incubate eggs.
The sky seemed to look passively onward, black and dark like my pencil that had shaded it in.
The retriever sniffed with cautious curiosity at the doctor's legs, and Julien stood there, looking passively at the dog.
Still panting, Ermo slowly removes her babushka and the many layers of her winter clothing, as a perplexed Xiazi looks on passively.
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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