inertia
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Even if the state awards more funding for the tribe’s restoration efforts, he said, interruptions to science damage trust and relationships — creating setbacks and inertia that are difficult to recover from.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026
The major human spaceflight programs are supertankers, with tremendous inertia.
From Slate • Mar. 13, 2026
“Given the history of disruption, the limits of AI technology and inertia in the process,” Damodaran reckons that the disruption can only take place in some businesses and industries but not all.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 5, 2026
At everyday scales, motion is shaped by forces such as gravity and inertia, which depend on an object's volume.
From Science Daily • Jan. 6, 2026
The same phrase is then employed by Newton in his definition of inertia; he evidently took the phrase from Descartes, and discovered only later that it originated in Lucretius.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing inertia
The Watsons Go to Birmingham
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"The Hill We Climb," by Amanda Gorman
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