momentum
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Flock CEO Garrett Langley told the Journal that momentum is still with the company and that its audit tools are helping uncover misuse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Sometimes, even when the prosecutor involved almost certainly knows something other than justice is in the works, there is a momentum of ego and bureaucracy that is hard to reverse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
"I can't accept, and we shouldn't accept, losing individual battles, duels, second balls, not winning enough tackles and just getting the momentum of the game going our way," the former Hearts manager added.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
As open-source artificial intelligence gains momentum, Nvidia may be making a sizable acquisition.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
At the last moment, Jack managed to grab a fold in the giant’s cheek, stopping his momentum just enough for him to recover his balance less than a foot from the edge of the throat.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
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"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
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
Various properties of the S-matrix were known—notably analyticity with respect to values of particle momenta, and so-called crossing symmetry associated with exchanging particles and antiparticles.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 6, 2019
The change does not consist of these momenta, but is generated or produced by them as their effect.
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
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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