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boomerang

[boo-muh-rang] / ˈbu məˌræŋ /


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That peace trade subsequently helped markets boomerang to records.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

The clips boomerang around the internet and get analyzed and recapped for everyone by Sunday morning.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

I said, “I’ll tell you what, for the sizzle reel, we’ll do this: You are the son of two doctors. You are ‘the boomerang kid.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2025

Once again, the Bludger swerved like a boomerang and shot at Harry’s head.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling

Store workers blow giant colorful bubbles and throw boomerangs around, while jingles from electric toys and whirls from their wheels mingle with the chatter of shoppers’ conversations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025

Nala points out all she was taught about Tasmanian Aboriginal culture and history at her Hobart school was a brief lesson on boomerangs and didgeridoos - although her people used neither.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2024

Once he did, Evans installed an electric-blue Formica countertop with boomerangs and retro-style appliances that she bought from Home Depot, finishing the look with a set of swivel counter stools with wood laminate backs.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2021

While it succeeded in bringing a game to the streaming service, a few too many choices resulted in either dead-ends or storytelling boomerangs that ultimately put the viewer on rails.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2020

Finsterwald’s backyard was a graveyard of tennis balls and baseballs and footballs and Frisbees and model airplanes and oneway boomerangs.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli

How has Marcello Hernández’s impression of you on “Saturday Night Live” boomeranged back to you?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

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

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2025

You were also boomeranged on the show, which is unusual.

From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2023

That dropped to $19,000 per wedding in 2020 as COVID-19 restrictions limited gathering sizes, then boomeranged back to $28,000 in 2021 as restrictions on indoor gatherings eased and demand resurged.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 5, 2023

Thus I have come a long way and returned and boomeranged a long way from the point in society toward which I originally aspired.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

Companies are bringing back retirees who formerly worked there full-time, known as boomeranging.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 19, 2026

This kind of thing might come back again, and certainly long balls are boomeranging back into fashion as the natural antidote to high pressing, short goal-kicks and high defensive lines.

From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2025

But the state has seen an uptick in the number of people in need of such programs, as well as more former residents boomeranging back for “further stabilization,” the state report said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2024

"Good," Ronnie replies before the Thor lookalike can even finish speaking, choking back bites of a burger before boomeranging back to the zip line.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2023

It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison


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