momentum
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That, coupled with a big sack from sophomore defensive lineman Kingston Jimmerson, killed the momentum on the visitors’ final drive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
After scoring 33 unanswered points in a spell at Wigan, Wakefield simply brought that momentum with them to Old Trafford as they absolutely bossed the first half, stretching that streak to 52 points.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
However, momentum has been lost and the danger is that the problem now just festers for days, months or even years.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Now the challenge becomes keeping the momentum going as OpenAI, Google and others press ahead with their own offerings and as Meta continues to spend countless billions on the promise of the technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Another tree broke his momentum, only for a rattling heartbeat, before he was whisked back into the open air.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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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
A thin slab of barium borate first split a single photon into two of photons lower energy with correlated angular momenta.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 25, 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
Death came slowly, but it came; and he died, eloquent to the last—novissimo quoque momenta suppeditante eloquentia.
From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover
"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
Yes; I have the most weight, he the greatest velocity; so that upon the whole our momentums are equal.
From Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained by Thomas P. Jones
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