ricochet
Example Sentences
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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
Unlucky Torino centre-back Coco saw the ball come off him and ricochet into the net in the 74th minute when his teammate Luis Asue attempted to clear a free-kick.
From Barron's • Dec. 28, 2025
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
Every projectile that hit him seemed to ricochet harmlessly off his mech’s armored body.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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