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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

The appointment of Peter Mandelson as the UK's ambassador to Washington is like a bad news boomerang for the government.

From BBC Jun. 1, 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

I watch the adrenaline-happy driver, who thinks he’s at the Indy 500, boomerang a turn at such an extreme angle the side of the bike scrapes the street.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

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

“Don’t go toward the ball, let it bounce to you,” Guerra says after a ball boomerangs off the wall toward me and I miss it completely.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 27, 2025

Nala points out all she was taught about Tasmanian Aboriginal culture and history at her Hobart school was a brief lesson on boomerangs and didgeridoos - although her people used neither.

From BBC Sep. 14, 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

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

You were also boomeranged on the show, which is unusual.

From Salon Nov. 29, 2023

None of that boomeranged back at them at Ibrox either.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2023

That dropped to $19,000 per wedding in 2020 as COVID-19 restrictions limited gathering sizes, then boomeranged back to $28,000 in 2021 as restrictions on indoor gatherings eased and demand resurged.

From Washington Times Jun. 5, 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

But the state has seen an uptick in the number of people in need of such programs, as well as more former residents boomeranging back for “further stabilization,” the state report said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 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

For Lexie, the precedent was not quite so clear: her mother had grown up in Shaker and had never gone far—just down to Denison for her undergrad before boomeranging back.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng




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