momentum
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The fund was up 400%-plus for the year, running $45 billion, and owned every momentum name in the AI space, memory, energy, neoclouds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Mohamed Belloumi: Very calm performance, tidy short passes and rarely gave the ball away, which allowed Hull to build momentum.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
West’s story, however, has gained momentum not because of the messiness surrounding surrogacy agreements and termination clauses.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
The researchers applied this pulse at different intervals after the first one and measured the energy and momentum of the expelled electrons.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Over the next two months, the match’s momentum ebbed and flowed, but from the ninth game on, Bobby, scraping his way back, took the lead and held on to it.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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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
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
The set of all the particles' positions and momenta we call the steam's microstate.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 20, 2020
On the other hand, what momenta of true religious thought have these ideals embraced?
From The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion by Daniel Garrison Brinton
"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
Yes; I have the most weight, he the greatest velocity; so that upon the whole our momentums are equal.
From Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained by Thomas P. Jones
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