inertia
Example Sentences
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Because of this enormous planetary inertia, scientists expect sea levels to keep rising for many centuries.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2026
Drake understands that the inertia of superstardom in this surprisingly stagnant quarter-century will protect him.
From Salon • May 21, 2026
Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Her Private Hell” is longer than that and the inertia is excruciating.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
The U.S., he argues, ceded too much domestic manufacturing capacity over decades, often through a combination of regulatory burden, inertia and strategic neglect.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Ishmael had hung on to it in part from sheer inertia, in part because driving it reminded him of his father.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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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