inertia
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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
If it is as simple as directing your agent to find the highest yield, then the inertia that used to protect financial institutions is going away.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
If you’re retired and wondering when or whether to move, treat the decision as a research project — don’t procrastinate or let inertia take hold.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 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
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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