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
By mid-1780 the Cherokee resistance regained momentum when they began raiding squatters’ settlements within Cherokee territory.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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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
"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
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 two fundamental momenta of thought and its development are spontaneity 52 and reflection, and the two essential forms they assume are religion and philosophy.
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
"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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