ricochet

Example Sentences

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The court ruling was the latest legal move to ricochet through the interoceanic waterway, which handles about 40 percent of US container traffic and five percent of world trade.

From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026

The messages ricochet across an Iowa grocery store, a kind of ambient chorus while, at one of the few remaining manned checkout lines, a cashier squints at his screen.

From Salon • Jan. 3, 2026

Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck are joined by the New York Times’ Nicholas Kulish to discuss the ricochet effect of such a massive media merger on the film and television industries.

From Slate • Dec. 6, 2025

The appropriations ricochet off the feminist imitations of Andy Warhol and Frank Stella paintings that Elaine Sturtevant began to make in the 1960s.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2025

Lazlo could see the ricochet of feeling in her, the tentative surge of hope flinching back toward the firmer ground of dread.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor