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Recent Examples of momentum For Bieber, the footwear moment coincides with fresh momentum for her skin-care label Rhode. Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2025 Bill Clinton bludgeoned congressional Republicans with the 1995 shutdowns to recapture momentum and set in motion his successful reelection campaign. W. James Antle Iii, The Washington Examiner, 2 Oct. 2025 Raven’s marvel of a case study recapitulates the dissonance whereby cycles—political, social, structural, ecological—continue, monuments are created and destroyed and momentum is incited and frustrated, all while costs continue to mount. Anne Reeve, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025 The momentum has continued in 2025. Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 1 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for momentum
Recent Examples of Synonyms for momentum
Noun
  • The impetus for Redeux Style was to teach people how to create beautiful moments in their lives to be more sustainable.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 26 Sep. 2025
  • There was enough of an impetus, there was enough energy there.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Tesla had a first-mover advantage in China in 2013, leveraging the government’s support of EVs with subsidies and incentives and its production base and opening a gigafactory in Shanghai in 2019.
    Rebecca A. Fannin, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Livermore and Alameda officials unsuccessfully offered their own tax incentive packages.
    Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The recent sighting provided encouragement to conservationists.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Redd offered encouragement and resources, including money for a hotel room.
    Essence, Essence, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • No throwback footage was needed as motivation on Sunday; only clips of their opponent.
    Ben Pickman, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • And so that was the real motivation.
    Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • To him, animal behavior was largely based on stimulus and response.
    Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The receptors in your hands respond to myriad stimuli-like pressures—vibrations in sync with 15 different families of neurons.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025

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“Momentum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/momentum. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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