inertia
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I still can’t say with certainty why this prosecution was perpetuated—what portion was attributable to the motivations of individual government agents and what portion to forces of institutional inertia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
It’s about inertia and abdication, not solutions, and while I don’t entirely love this strange comedy, I’m giddy that it’s lurched into existence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
This inertia is terrible news for the Premier League as a competition.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Tightening financial conditions through ambiguous communication and unexplained policy inertia that causes an overshoot in long-term bond yields is a high-cost strategy.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
“I don’t think it was fear so much as the inertia of living in a familiar place that we feel connected to. Nowhere is perfect.”
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
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
Vocabulary lists containing inertia
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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