inert
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In “Two Prosecutors,” the inert nobodies blocking Kornev’s progress are crisply choreographed, Stalin’s existential choke hold strangling their very spirit.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
Lutnick’s testimony this past week, like Bondi’s, is thus operating as a still life in what happens when the law becomes inert.
From Slate • Feb. 12, 2026
In its vegetative state, the plot quickly becomes inert and frustrating, spinning its wheels in ways you never thought wheels could spin.
From Salon • Jan. 25, 2026
Here, however, the paintings are inert, and the affinity one feels the artist has for his other subjects is absent.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
Sometimes he stayed there, fully clothed and inert, for twelve or thirteen hours.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
Vocabulary lists containing inert
Anti-Antonyms: Words Without Opposites
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And Then There Were None
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