How to Use inaction in a Sentence

inaction

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  • We must consider the consequences of continued inaction.
  • The protesters criticized the administration's inaction on environmental issues.
  • What is not clear to me is what the cost of inaction is.
    — Rob Reddick, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2023
  • If the stakes of the 2024 election are as great as the party says, there’s no excuse for inaction.
    — Bryan Walsh, Vox, 1 July 2024
  • Be part of the problem through inaction or part of the solution through change.
    — Erin Hill, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2023
  • And all the while, people inside are bearing the cost of inaction.
    — Alleen Brown, The New Republic, 1 July 2023
  • On the one hand, the harm of inaction is real and growing every year.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The rebellion was, in large part, the product of Putin’s inaction.
    — Tatiana Stanovaya, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2023
  • But one thing that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle seem to agree on is that inaction is not an option.
    — Farnoush Amiri and Lisa Mascaro, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2022
  • The cost of inaction is much greater than that of overreaction.
    — Dev Patnaik, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2023
  • The novel won wide praise for creatively taking on the issue of climate change and our inaction in the face of it.
    — Martin Wolk, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2022
  • During years of inaction through the painful rebuild, the most insignificant of moves were all there was.
    — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Through inaction in Congress and less action than in the past from the courts, what's happening in states -- both blue and red -- is likely to stand.
    — Rick Klein, ABC News, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Scene by scene, Linda becomes more and more aware of the consequences of her inaction.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2022
  • But when her actions and inactions are not aligned with mine, or, in my view, supportive of me as a Blak person.
    — Bizzi Lavelle, refinery29.com, 22 June 2023
  • That’s a bargain relative to the costs of inaction, but much of it will be borne by governments.
    — Mark Gongloff, The Mercury News, 28 June 2024
  • Ohio, however, is worth studying for the power of a Trump action—and that of his inaction.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 4 May 2022
  • Instead, most of the news about climate action in recent months has been about inaction.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The risks of inaction are already apparent in Gaza City.
    — Patrick Kingsley Avishag Shaar-Yashuv, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Da Silva even threatened to sue the platform for inaction.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The silence and inaction of so many does nothing to support our front-line workers who choose to show up each and every day to do their jobs.
    — Arkansas Online, 31 Jan. 2022
  • But my view is that inaction would be the greatest provocation.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2022
  • For the most part, the candidates determined that the crisis is a result not of inaction on Biden’s part but on Congress’s.
    — Noah Rothman, National Review, 13 Feb. 2024
  • After years of delays and inaction at the top of the state, New York’s adult-use cannabis bill is now on its way to implementation.
    — Andrew Ward, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2022
  • This was not an easy decision, but inaction could have forced closure of the entire hotel leading to the loss of all jobs.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 25 Jan. 2022
  • But the program expired at the end of 2021, due to congressional inaction.
    — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 16 June 2023
  • However, what’s striking here is the inaction of the police.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Essence, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The trial was believed to be the first in the nation against a police officer for inaction during a mass shooting.
    — Patricia Mazzei, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2023
  • The unknowable impact of vast, fast change left Syria mired in half-policies and US inaction before.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
  • But inaction can also cost you time, money and growth opportunities.
    — Janet Lam, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024

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