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boomerang

[boo-muh-rang] / ˈbu məˌræŋ /


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The clips boomerang around the internet and get analyzed and recapped for everyone by Sunday morning.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

Your good health might turn chronically bad; your money pit of a house might morph into a black hole; your successful children might boomerang back into your basement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

AI critic Will Lockett dubs this the “AI boomerang effect.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

The bad news boomerang of Lord Mandelson's appointment continues to whizz around and whack this government at regular intervals - and inflict ongoing headaches.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

Michael tells him that’s a boomerang and you’d have to go all the way to Australia to get the likes of that, you can’t get it in America.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

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

"We have turnovers, liners, hooks, boomerangs, knuckles. And they all do different things," Koch said in an interview with the NFL in 2016.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2024

But “Poor Things,” based on the 1992 novel by Alasdair Gray, also boomerangs back to the trailblazing Shelley by applying a decidedly feminist touch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024

Once he did, Evans installed an electric-blue Formica countertop with boomerangs and retro-style appliances that she bought from Home Depot, finishing the look with a set of swivel counter stools with wood laminate backs.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2021

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

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

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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