inert

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"We write information into stable, inert materials that can withstand the passage of time and remain fully accessible to future generations."

From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026

In “Two Prosecutors,” the inert nobodies blocking Kornev’s progress are crisply choreographed, Stalin’s existential choke hold strangling their very spirit.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Purely as entertainment, it is inert; the story, about a family in mourning, features histrionics worthy of grand opera and a level of rudeness that could peel paint.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Lutnick’s testimony this past week, like Bondi’s, is thus operating as a still life in what happens when the law becomes inert.

From Slate • Feb. 12, 2026

Instinct warned Matthias to lie inert and play dead.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques