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inertia

[in-ur-shuh, ih-nur-] / ɪnˈɜr ʃə, ɪˈnɜr- /


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This inertia is terrible news for the Premier League as a competition.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

If it is as simple as directing your agent to find the highest yield, then the inertia that used to protect financial institutions is going away.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

“We’ve kind of been living, in a way, off inertia of this old idea,” he added.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

One is simple inertia — finding a provider can feel overwhelming.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026

The fact that I’m able to get the zipper over my hips is a lesson in inertia or just willpower.

From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy

That as the bird wing is a screw in action, and acts directly between the inertias of the load and the air, the position and operation of the screw, to the load, must imitate it.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 by Various

We alternate between spasms of Virtue and comfortable inertias of Don't-care-a-Damn!

From Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts by Louis J. (Louis John) Stellman

The pigs on my either hand had by this time overcome their respective inertias and were chomping cheek-murdering chunks.

From The Enormous Room by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings




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