momentum
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Richard Horsey, senior Asia adviser at the International Crisis Group, said the ICJ ruling may have little impact on Min Aung Hlaing's momentum.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026
The key instrument is a photoemission momentum microscope.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026
Previously, so long as they maintained their bind, individuals could work their way round, pulling apart the attacking team's momentum and threatening to steal possession.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
If the AI capex narrative is losing momentum then Jefferies strategist Chris Wood can recommen some sectors , like pharma, and some markets like India, Brazil and China, as ways to play that slowdown.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 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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When particles with intermediate momenta emerge from this plasma, they can inherit collective motion from the quarks that make them up.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
Romping the go-pedal at highway speeds initiates a wild, jaw-clenching acceleration event, a Nantucket sleigh ride of instantaneous momenta.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
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
The momenta of two portions of matter are the products of their inertiæ by their motions, and, in the present case, we must take the inertiæ of equal spaces.
From Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence by Thomas Bassnett
"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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