boomerang
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That peace trade subsequently helped markets boomerang to records.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
The clips boomerang around the internet and get analyzed and recapped for everyone by Sunday morning.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
AI critic Will Lockett dubs this the “AI boomerang effect.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
Without the truce being extended by the 12 August deadline, tariffs could "boomerang" back up, US officials said.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2025
I shrugged and looked at that spot on the wall again, the boomerang or cocoon or whatever.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
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Collier posts boomerangs of herself flexing twice a week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
"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
A mysterious story about a boy finding a meteorite ingeniously boomerangs, coincidences mount, patterns emerge, junk proves valuable and she chooses to “take the side of amazement.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2022
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 same policies they supported have boomeranged on them.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2026
In two games t,he lack of ambition to improve the team has boomeranged back and hit the club squarely between the eyes.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2025
In the weeks after Carlson’s exit, some viewers bolted to right-wing channel Newsmax, which saw its audience rise 20% to 145,000, though many later boomeranged back to Fox.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 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
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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
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
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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