inertia
Example Sentences
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The result was organizations that learned to sustain themselves on institutional inertia rather than actual worker support.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026
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
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
Newton discovered the law of inertia, the tendency of a moving object to continue moving in a straight line unless something influences it and moves it out of its path.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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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