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
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
The oldest known boomerang from Australia dates to about 10,500 years ago, made from wood.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2025
“Did you hear the one about the Australian who wanted to buy a new boomerang but he couldn’t get rid of his old one?”
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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
"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
A mysterious story about a boy finding a meteorite ingeniously boomerangs, coincidences mount, patterns emerge, junk proves valuable and she chooses to “take the side of amazement.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2022
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
It boomerangs back, just slightly, off the blinking lights and stone buildings around me, and I’m just about to feel sorry for myself.
From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle
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
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
You were also boomeranged on the show, which is unusual.
From Salon ● Nov. 29, 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
It’s in Part 1 of the series finale, when she confronts Big for boomeranging back into her life right when she’s moving on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 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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