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boomerang

verb as in backfire

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In a second simulation, the team virtually rejoined the two pieces of boomerang-shaped bone.

She points out the similarities between the Nike swoosh, the Newport cigarette logo, and the red boomerang around the Capital One sign, and how customers have wildly different associations with these brands, even if their branding looks the same.

From Eater

It flew out of Louisiana, went to Australia, and then returned, like the world’s biggest, most menacing boomerang.

Now that story has boomeranged on the eight-year-old brokerage.

From Quartz

Onboard, the Luna boasted a camera, automatic film processor, and a scanner, and when it boomeranged back past Earth, it transmitted 17 photographs of the moon’s hidden face.

If there's good news, it's that boomerang babies aren't entirely those who can't afford to live on their own.

It would be one thing to attack her judicial philosophy, but attacks on her character as a Latina may well boomerang.

Snakes were always killed with sticks, whilst birds were brought down with the wonderful boomerang.

The well-known instrument called the boomerang is Australian, and it is, perhaps, exclusively so.

Figure 114 is the Nubian sword, which in form exactly resembles the boomerang.

This much, all curved weapons of the boomerang form possess as a common property.

The New Zealander throws his pattoo-pattoo, and the Australian throws the dowak and the waddy, as well as his boomerang.

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On this page you'll find 23 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to boomerang, such as: backlash, react, rebound, recoil, return, and reverse.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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