as in laziness
an inclination not to do work or engage in activities
the inertia that grips so many of the club's members is the reason why nothing ever gets done
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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.
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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
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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
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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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