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
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
After Chung and Klugo huddle, they line up on the court like two halves of the same body, moving in tandem as the balls ricochet off rackets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
Ms. Frank’s unconventional, imaginatively orchestrated score maps their dreamlike journey as they ricochet through different planes of existence, and find resolution together in their love and their art.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
Three profoundly destabilizing scientific ideas ricochet through the twentieth century, trisecting it into three unequal parts: the atom, the byte, the gene.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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
Sri Lanka's Kavisha Dilhari is stumped by Bangladesh's Nigar Sultana Joty in the most "unfortunate" way as the ball is deflected onto the wicketkeeper's legs before it ricochets onto the stumps.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2025
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
The blue glow of the flat-screen TV in front of us ricochets off her eyes as she turns back to it.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
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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 firm’s unraveling ricocheted across the financial world, especially on now-defunct Swiss bank Credit Suisse, which had sold loans by the firm to its clients.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 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
It's a phrase that first ricocheted through Budapest during Hungary's ill-fated anti-communist uprising of 1956.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026
The escaped word ricocheted around the ward and seemed to repeat itself several times.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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Dave had ricochetted ever since between amusement and chagrin at her generalship.
From The Cow Puncher by Robert J. C. Stead
Overhead the lightning crackled and the thunder ricochetted from the distant hills.
From The Corner House Girls on a Tour Where they went, what they saw, and what they found by Grace Brooks Hill
The coin hit the trombone a glancing blow on the snout, ricochetted off the bassoon and bounded into the rockery.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. CLVIII, January 7, 1920 by Various
The missile passed a few feet in front of the tramp's bows, and, throwing up a shower of spray that burst inboard on the British vessel's fo'c'sle, ricochetted a mile or so away.
From The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War by Edward S. Hodgson
Striking the water within twenty yards of its objective, the missile had ricochetted, and had shattered the torpedo-boat's foremost funnel.
From The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
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
Another defensive mess in the second half resulted in Dane Murray's attempted clearance ricocheting off Gabri Martinez and into the back of the net.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 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
A sharp ping sounded: the ball ricocheting off the armored back of one of those ankys.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
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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
At this moment a white cloud burst from the schooner's bow, and a shot, evidently from a heavy gun, came ricochetting over the sea.
From Martin Rattler by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
The balls went skipping along after striking the ground a hundred yards or so beyond the enemy’s battery, and, ricochetting, darted right for the solid moving mass of men.
From The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War by George Manville Fenn
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 Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
They could hear it descending, not at a single drop, but striking and ricochetting from side to side.
From The Lone Ranche by Mayne Reid
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