momentum
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A month ago, however, uppermost among Tyler’s concerns were widening credit spreads, Fed uncertainty, heavy positioning, seasonality concerns and a worry about the AI momentum trade unwinding.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
The workaround is giving unexpected momentum to a long-running debate on loosening Northern Ireland’s liquor laws.
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
Twig always provides the momentum behind our operations.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
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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
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
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
For the attention of reason, which in abstract speculation does not easily become conscious of its errors, is thus roused to the momenta in the determination of its principles.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
"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
"They are momentums of the Art Loan Imposition."
From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 1, January 5, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various
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