momentum

If the trend of falling stocks having downward momentum were consistent then making outright bets against them would be a sure-fire trading strategy, and it isn’t.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Helicopter pilots are trained to stay away from those conditions, Cress said, because the lack of altitude and forward momentum give them little recourse if there is engine trouble.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Whether it’s a behemoth still in the prime of its life or turnaround story that’s gaining momentum, these six retailers are worth a look.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

Throughout his time, Hibs had a ruinous capacity to concede late goals that checked momentum and made the search for the holy grail of consistency all the harder.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 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

For example, such measurements are made with detectors at the Large Hadron Collider or instruments called mass spectrometers that use such information to calculate the masses and momenta of particles, ions and molecules.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 21, 2021

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 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

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