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Poody is an example of a reborrowing or boomerang word, the OED said, meaning it had been borrowed from English into another language and then back again.

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In two games t,he lack of ambition to improve the team has boomeranged back and hit the club squarely between the eyes.

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But pulling that stunt on a former president, especially one as beloved as Obama, will only boomerang by underscoring how weird and pointless this all is.

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Without the truce being extended by the 12 August deadline, tariffs could "boomerang" back up, US officials said.

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He accused the MoJ of "deliberately" setting up prison leavers "to fail" and "return like a boomerang".

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

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