ricocheted
Example Sentences
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Video of the incident—played in court—had already ricocheted across the internet.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
It's a phrase that first ricocheted through Budapest during Hungary's ill-fated anti-communist uprising of 1956.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
For weeks, salacious talk swirled in campaign circles, ricocheted through email chains and was served up, like a buzzy side dish, over gossipy lunches from Sacramento to San Diego.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
Kalulu struck in the 73rd minute when Pisa defender Arturo Calabresi's attempted clearance from a Weston McKennie cross ricocheted off the Frenchman and into the net.
From Barron's • Dec. 27, 2025
They were less books than notebooks, filled with rambling transcriptions of his own internal conversations that ricocheted off one another at unpredictable angles.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
