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boomerang

[boo-muh-rang] / ˈbu məˌræŋ /


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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 boomerang is exceptionally well preserved, with score marks suggesting it had been polished and carved for use by a right-handed individual.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2025

Not wanting to be left out, I fired Leopardon’s Arc Turn weapon, a gold boomerang that launched from the mech’s forehead.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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

But the oldest images of boomerangs in Australia are rock art paintings 20,000 years old, according to National Museum Australia.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2025

A gallery exploring the “White Album” years boomerangs from Sharon Tate to migraines to the Black Panthers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2022

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

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 same policies they supported have boomeranged on them.

From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2026

None of that boomeranged back at them at Ibrox either.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2023

They boomeranged by lowering use in June by 7.6% from 2020 levels, according to state figures, still short of Mr. Newsom’s call for a 15% voluntary reduction.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 23, 2022

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

It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison




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