ricochet
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Engineers said they were able to debunk some "myths", including that bullets can ricochet off the curve in the ballistic plate.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Anchored on a near-orchestral soundstage, its 20 tracks ricochet from in-your-face punk dissonance to majestic broken-heart dirges, a lovely duet with St. Vincent, rootsy folk interludes and farfisa-rich lounge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
That means any deteriorating credit backdrop, a pickup in credit losses or higher yields still could ricochet through private credit or other publicly traded funds.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
The court ruling was the latest legal move to ricochet through the interoceanic waterway, which handles about 40 percent of US container traffic and five percent of world trade.
From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026
She wished she had something to throw, something to ricochet off buildings with the kind of force that she felt building up behind her heart.
From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway
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"Is anyone alive in here?!" the voice of Moises Faramaya ricochets around the ruins of the same neighborhood.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
In her refusal to shy away from the grime and grit of Yuknavitch’s story, Stewart creates a startlingly raw atmosphere that ricochets between discordant and truly inspiring.
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2026
Even if their shots don’t go in, the traffic in front of the goal leads to more tips, ricochets and general chaos in the tight areas around Winnipeg’s goal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2025
There's almost a Ben Stokes World Cup final 2019 moment, as Sciver-Brunt comes back for the second and the throw in from the fielder ricochets off her bat.
From BBC ● May 16, 2024
Any sound you make ricochets around, bouncing against all these different-shaped stone, mosaic and tiled surfaces.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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However, the ball bounced off Basallo’s gear and ricocheted away from the plate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026
The Monroe appearance then ricocheted across the internet with the kind of viral intensity traditional late-night television has not generated in years.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
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
We didn't talk about the blood on the handkerchiefs or the coughs that ricocheted from the back of my house.
From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour
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The rest either flew harmlessly overhead or ricochetted from the surface of the placid water.
From The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War by Hodgson, Edward S.
The shot struck the water about sixty or seventy fathoms from the frigate, ricochetted, and appeared to pass over her, for presently we saw the water spout up again well to starboard of the vessel.
From The Log of a Privateersman by Rainey, W. (William)
It "scooted," glanced, ricochetted, or whatever you want to call it, all around that room and you never saw such a scampering to get out.
From The Emma Gees by McBride, Herbert Wes
It ricochetted and struck again half a mile outside.
From The Boys of '98 by Otis, James
The bits of ice flew up smartly, and the ball must have ricochetted; for we saw the ice fly up again quite near the bear, and then at another point beyond him.
From Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' by Stephens, C. A. (Charles Asbury)
Now, the template of how the team made a softer, affordable diaper is ricocheting across the $33 billion company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
Their motion resembles a pinball ricocheting between stationary posts.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 17, 2025
The incident has fueled a storm of late-summer ridicule, with memes ricocheting across social media and commentators pointing to the almost slapstick nature of the scandal.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2025
In a city of strivers ricocheting around in congested isolation, the park is an island of repose, a place where lives intersect and time slows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2023
And it is the sight of her looking like some preposterous zombie that sends a hummingbird of panic ricocheting through me.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
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A ball struck close to the stroke-oar of the gig, deluging its occupants with water and ricochetting over the gunwale of the boat, between the stroke-oar and Mr. Hethcote.
From Jack Archer by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
The first ball fired fell short of the brig, striking the water directly in its wake, and ricochetting again threw up the water beyond it.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 by Various
The first shot from the "Conestoga" struck the water a few feet from the "Yankee," and, ricochetting, plunged into her hull.
From The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 by Jackson, W. C.
The rain is followed by hailstones which fly through the defile in battalions—rolling, hopping, ricochetting, snapping, clattering down the shelving banks in an undefinable haze of confusion.
From A Changed Man; and other tales by Hardy, Thomas
From cunningly concealed shore batteries, that seemed to multiply with hydra-headed persistence, German shells hurtled through the air, for the most part ricochetting harmlessly.
From Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
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