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boomerang

[boo-muh-rang] / ˈbu məˌræŋ /


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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

Meanwhile, actor Rati Gupta said she wanted to reveal her tale of woe with a boomerang hookup at L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026

He accused the MoJ of "deliberately" setting up prison leavers "to fail" and "return like a boomerang".

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2025

I watch the adrenaline-happy driver, who thinks he’s at the Indy 500, boomerang a turn at such an extreme angle the side of the bike scrapes the street.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

Collier posts boomerangs of herself flexing twice a week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

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

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

Inexplicably, Clyde started flinging magazines across the room like he was throwing boomerangs.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

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

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

None of that boomeranged back at them at Ibrox either.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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

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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