inertia
Example Sentences
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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
I sit at the espresso counter and have a cappuccino, to deal with the inertia that’s come over me at the sight of so much sugar-coated self-indulgence.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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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