momentum
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“The office market probably found its floor sometime last year, and we have seen some positive leasing momentum across the market.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
"After a setback in July, Germany's cyclical rebound gained new momentum in August," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
"But the momentum has been slow. It's not really like, 'Hey, I'm going to go run out there and vote right now.'"
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
U.S. stocks rose and the broad S&P 500 hit a record high as artificial-intelligence bets regained upward momentum and oil futures levelled off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
There’s a slight jolt underfoot as we begin our forward momentum.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
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"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
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
A few momenta after, Rica entered the chamber of his guest, where he remained in close conversation till nigh daybreak.
From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever
"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
He did not like chromo-lithographs, or the framed photographs which Mrs. Alwynn called her "momentums of travel," among his rare old prints, either.
From The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers by Mary Cholmondeley
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