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inertia

[in-ur-shuh, ih-nur-] / ɪnˈɜr ʃə, ɪˈnɜr- /


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Inertia is the easiest and most likely choice in any polity, and sometimes not even a crisis is enough to dislodge a dysfunctional status quo.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

Inertia is a property of humanity, and it hurts people.

From Salon • Dec. 30, 2021

Dr. Thorpe does not relish the idea of a divorce, and the pair drone on in limbo, paralyzed by those twin gods of failing matrimony, Fear and Inertia.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2016

Inertia is the tendency of an object to remain at rest or remain in motion.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

One overcomes Inertia in riding far and long on that mount.

From Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation by Comfort, Will Levington




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