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momentum

[moh-men-tuhm] / moʊˈmɛn təm /


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"It's been a really positive last few races and we want to keep that momentum going."

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

The recent upward momentum in long-dated U.S. yields appears to have slowed somewhat, although fiscal challenges persist, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

"There is momentum for climate litigation in the courts," Dennis van Berkel of the Climate Litigation Network, which supports legal action against states and corporations, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Arsenal lost some momentum as the end of the season approached but it was the surprise use of Myles Lewis-Skelly in holding midfield that reinvigorated Arsenal, helping them over the line.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Dr. Ezekowitz’s statement was typical of the small victories that kept Farmer’s spirits elevated and gave momentum to his mission.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

The angular momenta tied to its lattice vibrations combined in a way that produced a new rotation moving at twice the frequency but in the opposite direction.

From Science Daily ● May 24, 2026

But it rides on a brilliantly tuned air suspension with adaptive dampers to tie down rebellious momenta.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025

Physicists once assumed that if you inverted all the particles’ positions—swapping left and right, up and down, forward and back—and reverse all their momenta, the universe should work just the same.

From Science Magazine ● Feb. 5, 2021

The set of all the particles' positions and momenta we call the steam's microstate.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 20, 2020

The two fundamental momenta of thought and its development are spontaneity 52 and reflection, and the two essential forms they assume are religion and philosophy.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker

"Differing momentums appear at different positions on the detector. Put more simply, the different directions in which the electrons move in a layer are represented by corresponding dots on the detector," said Elmers.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 15, 2024

He says he rarely questions the root of his attraction to cars, the solitary driver and the twin momentums of fate and purpose.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2023

But after their six years together individual momentums are forcing a group hiatus.

From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2012

Although clocking at 40 minutes, you will find just seven post-rock songs that go from slow psychedelic notes to big momentums of distortion, noise and epic choruses.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2011

Yes; I have the most weight, he the greatest velocity; so that upon the whole our momentums are equal.

From Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained by Thomas P. Jones




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