inertia
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Materials with low thermal inertia, such as beach sand, quickly gain heat in sunlight and lose it once the Sun disappears.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
The newest fear is that artificial-intelligence agents might help to overcome customers’ inertia to leave their money where it is for a while.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
This inertia is terrible news for the Premier League as a competition.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Rolison’s case is one of inertia; he most likely forgot about his beneficiary designation entirely.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Ishmael had hung on to it in part from sheer inertia, in part because driving it reminded him of his father.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
That as the bird wing is a screw in action, and acts directly between the inertias of the load and the air, the position and operation of the screw, to the load, must imitate it.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 by Various
We alternate between spasms of Virtue and comfortable inertias of Don't-care-a-Damn!
From Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts by Louis J. (Louis John) Stellman
The pigs on my either hand had by this time overcome their respective inertias and were chomping cheek-murdering chunks.
From The Enormous Room by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings
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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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