oomph

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Combine their buy the dip, chase the rip behavior with professional investors like commodity trading advisers who already followed momentum strategies, and bounces have a lot more oomph these days.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

Jonny Gray hasn't played any rugby since the end of January and a partnership of Gilchrist and Gray doesn't give enough ball-carrying oomph.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

As she tells it, the special oomph that soy sauce adds to a bake is, in a word, umami.

From Salon • Dec. 13, 2025

More than seven minutes into No. 12 UCLA’s exhibition game against the Aztecs on Friday night, those fans were still clapping … with so little oomph that the gesture was barely audible.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2025

I tried digging down to find that extra oomph.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas