inertia

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Even if the state awards more funding for the tribe’s restoration efforts, he said, interruptions to science damage trust and relationships — creating setbacks and inertia that are difficult to recover from.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

The major human spaceflight programs are supertankers, with tremendous inertia.

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2026

While options exist already for individuals to open their own retirement plans through IRAs, people often get stymied by the administrative hurdles and their own inertia and fail to create such accounts, experts said.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 25, 2026

At everyday scales, motion is shaped by forces such as gravity and inertia, which depend on an object's volume.

From Science Daily • Jan. 6, 2026

A stupid question; though for me such a life, with its inertia and pity, had its secret attractions.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood