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inertia

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


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One is simple inertia — finding a provider can feel overwhelming.

From MarketWatch Jun. 26, 2026

"You have to take responsibility for your happiness and never stay out of resentment or inertia or acceptance," she said.

From Barron's Jun. 25, 2026

It further telegraphed the kind of ideological inertia in which Juneteenth — and any other present-day discussion of slavery in America — too easily becomes mired.

From Salon Jun. 19, 2026

Because of this enormous planetary inertia, scientists expect sea levels to keep rising for many centuries.

From Science Daily May 22, 2026

Egos, competing agendas, career goals, and inertia may get in the way.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

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

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




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