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noun ADJ. sheer | bureaucratic, institutional, organizational, political VERB + INERTIA lapse into She lapsed into inertia and lay there as if asleep. | overcome The forces for change in the government are not sufficient to overcome bureaucratic inertia. PREP. out of ~ He stayed where he was, not because he really wanted to, but out of inertia. | through ~ Projects were frequently abandoned through sheer inertia. PHRASES a state of inertia
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