inertia
Example Sentences
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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 isn’t tolerated by fan bases, especially when their division competitors — the Dodgers and San Francisco Giants — are signing big names and holding splashy press conferences.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2024
Inertia is a property of humanity, and it hurts people.
From Salon • Dec. 30, 2021
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 says a body will move once started, but it doesn't say why or how.
From Where I Wasn't Going by Richmond, Walt
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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