momentum

The victory kicked off the staggering run of 17 wins in 20 games which formed the backbone of returning to the Champions League and giving Villa momentum to win the Europa League.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

But the one part of the market that has cooled are so-called momentum stocks, whose precise definitions vary but basically are bets that fast-rising stocks will continue to gain ground.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

However, Europeans fumbled perhaps their best chance to change the momentum when Icelanders voted narrowly on Aug. 29 against resuming negotiations on entering the European Union.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

Micron stock could continue its recent momentum in the run up to its earnings on Sept. 30.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

He came with speed and momentum, dazzling speed for a boy encumbered with the ball, and Jim Don moved out heavily, menacingly to stop Ben.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

"Their momenta are not scattered but simply exchanged between collision partners. Each atom's momentum remains conserved -- it can only be passed on, never lost."

From Science Daily ● Jan. 7, 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

Various properties of the S-matrix were known—notably analyticity with respect to values of particle momenta, and so-called crossing symmetry associated with exchanging particles and antiparticles.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 6, 2019

Death came slowly, but it came; and he died, eloquent to the last—novissimo quoque momenta suppeditante eloquentia.

From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover

"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

Sometimes in Parliament you catch the vibration of big momentums in a nation's progress.

From The Masques of Ottawa by Augustus Bridle