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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

DHL Group DHL 0.90%increase; up pointing triangle upgraded its outlook for 2026 on the back of positive momentum and prospects of a strong seasonal peak in the last quarter of the year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

At one point he used his left arm to hoist himself up, and the momentum of the mass carried him forward.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro

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

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

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 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

Pulleys act then on the same principle as the lever; the deficiency of weight in the power, being compensated by its superior velocity, so as to make their momentums equal.

From Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained by Thomas P. Jones


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