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Recent Examples of inertia Here is a world never to be curated in any culture hub: Boarded-up shops; an ocean of cheap booze and easily available drugs; inertia and inchoate dissatisfaction. Ian Penman, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025 But that inertia may be intensified by how the social-media ecosystem has palpably decayed since the late twenty-tens, and not just because the politics of the platforms have shifted toward Trump. Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025 Turns out, this journey isn’t about the outcome so much as finding the will to overcome the inertia that holds us in place. Peter Debruge, Variety, 16 Feb. 2025 But clean energy will also meet much of that short-term demand, if for no reasons other than cost and inertia: Solar panels, wind turbines, and batteries are becoming cost-competitive with natural gas and getting cheaper, while a growing number of industries are turning to renewable energy sources. Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for inertia

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“Inertia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inertia. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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