momentum
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But Elizabeth Lafontaine, director of research at Placer.ai, a firm that monitors retail foot traffic, said Target’s announcement seems intended to build on newfound momentum.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
The dollar is unlikely to maintain its recent strong momentum unless Friday’s U.S. nonfarm payrolls report is much better than expected, ING said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Gas can follow those magnetic field lines outward, removing both material and angular momentum from the disk.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
Still his ODI side now has momentum - a third series win a row - as it builds towards next year's World Cup.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Because of course he managed to make it nerdy by relating it back to science and talking about momentum and stuff.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
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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
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
The prominence of one or the other of these elements depends upon local and national momenta, which are a proper study for the science of mythology, but need not detain us here.
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
Sometimes in Parliament you catch the vibration of big momentums in a nation's progress.
From The Masques of Ottawa by Augustus Bridle
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