inert
Example Sentences
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If there is a shortfall, there’s about $840 billion in revenue from businesses—entities without claims to clean consciences—raised through customs and corporate income taxes that could be used as morally inert backfill.
From Slate • May 11, 2026
But it takes a series of self-reflexive turns that are overelaborate in their conception and slightly inert in their execution, rendering the movie’s poignancy more theoretical than fully felt.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
The state investigator also requested the X-ray tests that deputies had used to wrongly determine that the two grenades were inert, according to the complaint.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026
"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
“Look at me, and tell me that symbol of the first inert gas, helium.”
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
Vocabulary lists containing inert
Anti-Antonyms: Words Without Opposites
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Languor Management: Synonyms for "Lazy"
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And Then There Were None
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