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

Craig is on the bench and offers plenty of oomph.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 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

Mookie Betts put some oomph on the end of the Dodgers’ arm-waving, hip-shaking, hit celebration.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2025

“Just a bit of oomph needed to get through an impossible situation.”

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