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

As accustomed as we’ve all become to European inertia, don’t miss early signs that a turn may be possible.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

Her voice had become sharp with overtones of bleakness as her soul congealed and she ceased to move, as the instinctive, omnipresent film of great weight, of an almost absolute inertia, settled over her.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick