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momentum

[moh-men-tuhm] / moʊˈmɛn təm /


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“The group achieved strong results driven by momentum across its business lines,” Chief Executive Jean-Laurent Bonnafe said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

However, some market players fret that all of this momentum could be an AI bubble that is about to burst.

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

The stock’s initial momentum was spurred by a strong second quarter.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

Smith lamented in his latest investor letter that “there will be little point being proved right about the dangers of passive or momentum investment after our fund has closed.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

The spinning of the earth causes these mighty waves to spiral endlessly to the east, building momentum as they go.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

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

But if the particles have opposite momenta, they stay distinct, so the operation creates a genuine and reversible change.

From Scientific American Mar. 29, 2022

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

On their union, the two momenta being equal and opposite will neutralize each other, and there will be no tendency to produce motion of any kind.

From Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science by Ackland, T. S. (Thomas Suter)

"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

You'll see me again shortly; but there have been momentums in my career when I said to myself, "Shall I ever aller out of this alive!"

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 30, 1890 by Various




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