inert
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The state investigator also requested the X-ray tests that deputies had used to wrongly determine that the two grenades were inert, according to the complaint.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026
Purely as entertainment, it is inert; the story, about a family in mourning, features histrionics worthy of grand opera and a level of rudeness that could peel paint.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
Lutnick’s testimony this past week, like Bondi’s, is thus operating as a still life in what happens when the law becomes inert.
From Slate • Feb. 12, 2026
At first glance, the moon appears lifeless and inert.
From Science Daily • Jan. 5, 2026
Then living things began to work their creative magic and little by little these inert materials became soil.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Vocabulary lists containing inert
Anti-Antonyms: Words Without Opposites
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And Then There Were None
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