through inertia
Frequency: 6.05.8 per million words
Indicates that inertia is the cause of a particular (often negative) outcome.
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- Projects were frequently abandoned through inertia.
- The reform process stalled through sheer inertia.
- Many decisions were made through political inertia, not careful planning.
- She continued working at the same job through a kind of emotional inertia.
- The old systems remained in place through organizational inertia.
- We failed to adapt to the new market demands through a lack of foresight and inertia.
- His lack of progress was largely due to working through pure inertia rather than motivation.
- The car continued to roll down the hill through its own inertia after the engine died.
- Change is often resisted through human inertia.
- The plan failed to gain momentum through sheer inertia.