inert

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At the recent drill in the Philippines, the Marines fired dozens of inert training rounds to practice hitting one-way-attack and surveillance drones and a mix of fixed-wing and rotor targets.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

So far, he says, Russian Oreshniks have only been carrying inert warheads and have caused limited damage.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

“The emotive nature of the category, alongside these durable levers that we bring to market, puts us in a category which is relatively much more inert to some of these macro headwinds,” Singh said.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

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

The nitrogen in the Earth’s atmosphere is much more chemically inert and therefore much more benign than oxygen.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan