boomerang
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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
AI critic Will Lockett dubs this the “AI boomerang effect.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
We of all people should know the boomerang swings back, but we got too dependent on you to truly acknowledge that.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2025
We were at least a hundred feet up, but the limo came sailing toward us, flipping fender over fender like a two-ton boomerang.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
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
“Don’t go toward the ball, let it bounce to you,” Guerra says after a ball boomerangs off the wall toward me and I miss it completely.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025
"We have turnovers, liners, hooks, boomerangs, knuckles. And they all do different things," Koch said in an interview with the NFL in 2016.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 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
Inexplicably, Clyde started flinging magazines across the room like he was throwing boomerangs.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
How has Marcello Hernández’s impression of you on “Saturday Night Live” boomeranged back to you?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Now the same policies they supported have boomeranged on them.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2026
In the weeks after Carlson’s exit, some viewers bolted to right-wing channel Newsmax, which saw its audience rise 20% to 145,000, though many later boomeranged back to Fox.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
None of that boomeranged back at them at Ibrox either.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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
As I play, I am Melba, daring anyone to say a girl can’t, and I am Belle, my sound boomeranging around Copley Station.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
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