How to Use inertia in a Sentence
inertia
noun
- He blames governmental inertia for the holdup.
- After 10 years in an unsatisfying job she overcame her inertia and went back to school.
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Now, the club appears to be paying the price for that inertia.
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Joshua Law,
Forbes,
19 Mar. 2021
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Usually, the longer the nap, the more sleep inertia there is to overcome.
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Steven Bender,
Discover Magazine,
1 Sep. 2023
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The force of inertia keeps my mind there, even though my body is somewhere else.
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Ben Croll,
Variety,
3 Dec. 2023
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Start up inertia is the amount of pressure a fish must overcome to get the drag moving.
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Jerry Audet,
Field & Stream,
10 Apr. 2023
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The last thing that parents have to battle is their own inertia.
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Marisa Lascala,
Good Housekeeping,
31 Aug. 2020
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All the inertia that has hit reigning champions in the past.
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SI.com,
27 June 2018
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To make the thing go, the researchers relied on the inertia, not of the fluid, but of the beads themselves.
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Adrian Cho,
Science | AAAS,
13 May 2021
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The old guard have a force that may be just as powerful: inertia.
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The Economist,
15 Feb. 2018
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Have the protests created enough inertia to ensure that the right thing is done?
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Corbett Smith,
Dallas News,
11 June 2020
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And yet, your letter has a whiff of helpless inertia about it.
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Karla L. Miller,
Washington Post,
30 July 2020
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Reels have what is known as start-up inertia or how easily the drag will kick in.
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Max Inchausti,
Field & Stream,
10 Apr. 2023
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Plans and hopes have their own inertia, and canceling things is a pain.
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Ed Yong,
The Atlantic,
17 Dec. 2021
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Concerns of ride and space are addressed with inertia and sheer size.
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Csaba Csere,
Car and Driver,
16 Mar. 2023
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Just like the carnival ride, the water is pressed up against the bucket in a fight with inertia.
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Kyle Hill,
Discover Magazine,
15 Aug. 2013
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Part of the work of the next few decades is to imagine and build a better future rather than letting inertia reign.
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David Biello,
New York Times,
24 May 2017
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Part of the challenge simply lies with the enormous inertia passwords have built up.
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Lily Hay Newman,
Wired,
17 Mar. 2022
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As the motors fight against the car's inertia, the noise cavitates your eardrums.
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Tony Quiroga,
Car and Driver,
6 Dec. 2021
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Even the best intentions get bogged down by inertia and red tape.
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Washington Post,
10 Mar. 2022
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That process can go over a month, so there’s a good amount of time to capitalize on the inertia of the market.
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Ron Kroichick,
SFChronicle.com,
11 Sep. 2020
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Was the void a monument not so much to ugliness, but to inertia?
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Lance Warren,
Longreads,
14 Oct. 2017
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This is less a pricing war a more pricing inertia driven by fear.
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Eamonn Forde,
Forbes,
13 Oct. 2021
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There’s too much cultural inertia not to at this point.
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oregonlive,
29 Jan. 2020
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One sign of inertia: failing to help people locked out of their accounts.
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Steven Levy,
WIRED,
18 Nov. 2022
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That means that any new player will have to overcome a lot of industry inertia.
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Daniel Oberhaus,
Wired,
17 Aug. 2020
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And his law of inertia allowed for Earth itself to rotate.
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Mark Barna,
Discover Magazine,
16 Dec. 2022
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Now, researchers have put a number on the high value of customer inertia.
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Irina Ivanova,
Fortune,
15 Aug. 2023
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Lockdown felt like quicksand — an inertia that led to a frenzied effort to restart the engine of my life.
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Michelle Santiago Cortés,
refinery29.com,
1 Aug. 2021
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This troubling matter was brought up with Fox five weeks ago but was met with inertia.
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Ashley Cullins,
The Hollywood Reporter,
21 Feb. 2018
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