inertia

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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

After a customary bout of second half inertia, the Eagles managed to retake the lead with three minutes left.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 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

The same phrase is then employed by Newton in his definition of inertia; he evidently took the phrase from Descartes, and discovered only later that it originated in Lucretius.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton