be inert
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A pack of cards made up exclusively of jokers would be useless, just as a society that devalues the individual would be inert.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
"Various Second World War-era unexploded ordnance items were discovered as a result of the wildfires, which the EOD operator declared to be inert practice projectiles. They were retrieved for subsequent disposal," he explained.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2025
They theorized that sodium's core electrons, thought to be inert, would interact with each other and the outer valence electrons when under extreme pressure.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 29, 2023
To Joseph, it makes as much sense for the dead to appear as spirits glowing in midair as for them to be inert and terminated.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2016
Why should yellow phosphorus be an active poison and red phosphorus be inert?
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 by Various
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