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momentum

[moh-men-tuhm] / moʊˈmɛn təm /


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Lane said he expects management to provide further details on that early AI momentum during the company’s Oct.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026

But a succession of mistakes - handling errors, needless offloads, sloppy penalties – allowed Tonga to control the momentum for much of the game.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

The Big Ten was the primary driving force behind the expansion, which gained momentum recently when the Southeastern Conference gave its blessing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

While 2Q net profit was below Nomura’s estimate, the lending business was largely in line, and Nomura expects healthy disbursal momentum to continue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The students were not about to squander their momentum, however, which had overnight grown greater than at any time since the lunch-counter movement had commenced over three years earlier.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

"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

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

Because the particles’ final energies and momenta contain information about what they encountered on their journey through the nucleus, they can also help uncover what’s happening in the hidden hearts of atoms.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 27, 2023

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

A few momenta after, Rica entered the chamber of his guest, where he remained in close conversation till nigh daybreak.

From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever

"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

He did not like chromo-lithographs, or the framed photographs which Mrs. Alwynn called her "momentums of travel," among his rare old prints, either.

From The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers by Mary Cholmondeley


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