inertia
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Inertia is the easiest and most likely choice in any polity, and sometimes not even a crisis is enough to dislodge a dysfunctional status quo.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
Inertia clearly plays a large role: It’s easier for investors to stay where they are than move their money.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2017
Dr. Thorpe does not relish the idea of a divorce, and the pair drone on in limbo, paralyzed by those twin gods of failing matrimony, Fear and Inertia.
From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2016
Inertia may be enough to keep a statue in the ground, but it’s not going to make anybody care about the president on that statue.
From Salon • Feb. 6, 2016
Hydra, structure of, 146 Icthyornis, 171 Inertia, a property of matter, 39 Inference, 5 n.;
From The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer by Gerard, John S.J.
Vocabulary lists containing inertia
The Watsons Go to Birmingham
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The Things They Carried
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"The Hill We Climb," by Amanda Gorman
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