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momentum

[moh-men-tuhm] / moʊˈmɛn təm /


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“This vote shows the momentum shifting,” said Will Cole, a podcaster and functional medicine practitioner.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

A massive parasitic outbreak has taken Taco Bell down a peg, and now it has to rebuild its momentum.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

"We're in the next round and can take that momentum into Motherwell," Gray said.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

One widely followed long-short basket of high-beta momentum names maintained by Goldman Sachs was down nearly 40% for the month through Wednesday’s close, according to data shared with MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch Jul. 30, 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

"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

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

As it is important that we should have a clear view of the character of the ether, we will revert to the principle we have advocated, viz.: that in equal spaces there are equal momenta.

From Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence by Bassnett, Thomas

"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 Jones, Thomas P.




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