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bounce

[bouns] / baʊns /






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South Korea's Haeran Ryu birdied the 18th to bounce back from a poor start and end the second round as leader of the AIG Women's Open at Royal Lytham & St Annes.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

Canham-Clyne predicted the brand will bounce back within six months.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

Tech firms enjoyed a much-needed bounce on Thursday, helping most Asian stock markets higher amid renewed hopes for the AI boom.

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

Roughly the size of golf balls, squash balls are made of rubber, but have relatively little bounce.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

I like the way my feet bounce off it.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

The question is whether that demand bounces back once the war ends.

From Barron's Jun. 9, 2026

See also: Micron’s stock bounces back in a big way: ‘The memory trade is alive and well’

From MarketWatch Jun. 8, 2026

"All the players hate it, it just destroys it. You get kicks, bounces and it makes an absolute mess of the table," he said.

From BBC Apr. 27, 2026

Combine their buy the dip, chase the rip behavior with professional investors like commodity trading advisers who already followed momentum strategies, and bounces have a lot more oomph these days.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 20, 2026

When the hamper threatens to tumble out again, I kick it, and it bounces back like a punk, so I kick it harder—and my foot breaks a hole in the plastic.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

Mayo suffered a slow start, but they bounced back and a late score from Tommy Conroy sealed a famous win in front of a sold-out 82,300 crowd.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

But it bounced right to pitcher Brooks Raley, who flipped the ball to the plate to eventually snare Tucker in a rundown between third and home.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

Software giant SAP bounced 4.2% after posting higher-than-expected cloud revenue, helping the German DAX to rise 0.3%.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

On Wednesday, the stock bounced more than 1% to get back to the $138 level shortly after the market opened.

From MarketWatch Jul. 15, 2026

Light from the overhead fixture bounced off the shattered screen.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

Loki’s movie misdeeds get him “removed from the timeline of history,” and in the “Loki” spinoff TV show, he faces his past while bouncing through time.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

Memory and chip stocks were bouncing Monday, with a Morgan Stanley analyst noting that the current cycle leaves room for “false flag” signals that may spook investors.

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

All those videos of Dutch fans turning city blocks into bouncing orange waves or Scotland’s Tartan Army drinking Boston dry merely hammered the point home.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

Without air molecules to slow them down, methane molecules move freely under the influence of gravity, bouncing across the surface as sunlight energizes them and colder temperatures reduce their speed.

From Science Daily Jul. 13, 2026

Swimmers are gathered in groups along the length of the pool deck, some of them stretching, most of them chatting and bouncing on their heels with nervous excitement.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam




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