momentum
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“I have never seen so much momentum in substituting aluminum for steel,” said Lourenco Goncalves, chief executive of steelmaker Cleveland-Cliffs.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
"You can't go into these games with slow starts and let Lyon build momentum," former Arsenal defender Anita Asante said.
From BBC • May 2, 2026
Even if all the momentum had shifted away from the Lakers and to the Rockets, L.A. still had the lead in the series.
From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2026
Yet a Supreme Court ruling striking down those original tariffs and an accelerating boom in artificial intelligence has supplied fresh momentum to an industry that has struggled to grow for the past four years.
From MarketWatch • May 1, 2026
By mid-1780 the Cherokee resistance regained momentum when they began raiding squatters’ settlements within Cherokee territory.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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