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  • adverb In a receptive manner.

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  • adverb in a receptive manner

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Examples

  • It is practice for dealing with life as peacefully and receptively as possible, not just superficially, but on the inside, too.

    Olivia Rosewood: Please Meditate: Parents, Too Olivia Rosewood 2011

  • It is practice for dealing with life as peacefully and receptively as possible, not just superficially, but on the inside, too.

    Olivia Rosewood: Please Meditate: Parents, Too Olivia Rosewood 2011

  • Life is best lived receptively and through self-reflection.

    Questions and more Questions 2008

  • Another complaint I have about both February and May is that everybody who is not black and Asian, respectively, sits back passively (albeit often receptively) and waits to have the History and Heritage brought to them.

    SeeLight: 2007

  • Another complaint I have about both February and May is that everybody who is not black and Asian, respectively, sits back passively (albeit often receptively) and waits to have the History and Heritage brought to them.

    Black History Month Support 2007

  • And since my students were already predisposed to think cultural studies has little to learn from those still speaking receptively of "the literary," Simpson's rhetoric effectively drove the "cultural" and

    Presentism and the Archives 2002

  • When I conversed with her in motorfree English, it was clear that this girl was a proficient linguist—both receptively and expressively.

    A Mind at a Time M.D. Mel Levine 2002

  • When I conversed with her in motorfree English, it was clear that this girl was a proficient linguist—both receptively and expressively.

    A Mind at a Time M.D. Mel Levine 2002

  • Bridgette Mabandla and Ncqonde Balfour receptively as well as a business delegation.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • That is being met very receptively here on Capitol Hill, but several key senators want to go further than the president.

    CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2001 2001

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