boomerang
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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
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
The mammoth ivory boomerang was unearthed in Oblazowa Cave in southern Poland.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2025
The wreath hit a wall behind him, punching a hole straight through the bricks, then arced backwards through the air like a boomerang.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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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
But the oldest images of boomerangs in Australia are rock art paintings 20,000 years old, according to National Museum Australia.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2025
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
Finsterwald’s backyard was a graveyard of tennis balls and baseballs and footballs and Frisbees and model airplanes and oneway boomerangs.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
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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 the 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
They boomeranged by lowering use in June by 7.6% from 2020 levels, according to state figures, still short of Mr. Newsom’s call for a 15% voluntary reduction.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 23, 2022
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
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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
It’s in Part 1 of the series finale, when she confronts Big for boomeranging back into her life right when she’s moving on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 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
As I play, I am Melba, daring anyone to say a girl can’t, and I am Belle, my sound boomeranging around Copley Station.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
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