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ricochet

[rik-uh-shey, rik-uh-shey, rik-uh-shet] / ˌrɪk əˈʃeɪ, ˈrɪk əˌʃeɪ, ˈrɪk əˌʃɛt /


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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

The ball shot to his left, where second baseman Santiago Espinal tried to salvage the play but couldn’t pick up the ricochet cleanly.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 13, 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

And Elijah himself had a further, unnerving habit, which was to ricochet his questions and comments off someone else on their way to you.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin

"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

The book ricochets back and forth in time, with such section headings as “Twelve Days Before the Robbery” and “Thirteen Years Earlier.”

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 24, 2025

Neat play down the right and a lovely reverse pass from Jordan Bowery sees Davis Keillor-Dunn burst into the box, but his shot ricochets up off U's keeper Owen Goodman.

From BBC Mar. 22, 2024

The sheer noisiness of them, of their heavy boots, and loud voices, buzzed on by their sense of urgency, ricochets through the quiet hush of the hospital and breathes some life into the place.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman

The ball ricocheted to the edge of the infield grass, where first baseman Freddie Freeman picked it up.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 12, 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

Another lodged itself in a window frame, and more ricocheted off the roof.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

It struck the water, and ricochetted not three yards off.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 by Various

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

A moment later the battery replied with their 9-tonners, sending forth shot after shot, most of which, however, ricochetted away over the glassy sea.

From The Great War in England in 1897 by William Le Queux

The rest ricochetted harmlessly over the water, throwing up sparkling geysers of foam in the bright sunlight.

From Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima by John Richard Hale

The rest either flew harmlessly overhead or ricochetted from the surface of the placid water.

From The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War by Edward S. Hodgson

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

“Great Gold Bird” can be heavy, tugging at our hearts even as it becomes more mystical — its themes ricocheting among grief, science fiction and spiritualism.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 6, 2024

It got even better for Paul Heckingbottom's on the stroke of half-time as Archer's arrowed effort hit the post before ricocheting off the unfortunate Pickford and into the net.

From BBC Sep. 2, 2023

Her mouth is open and her head shakes slightly, like my words are ricocheting around inside.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

Miss Angie's funeral-day dawned ashen as dusk—a sodden day, with the same autumn rain beating its one-tone tap against the windows and ricochetting down the panes, like tears down a woman's cheeks.

From Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole by Fannie Hurst

Several couples cannoned off James and went ricochetting to the farther end of the room, and one went down.

From The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn by Gordon Stables

These came down past us like cannon-balls, ricochetting by big bounds.

From Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan by Percival Lowell

So we bore down on her until there came a flash; a cannon ball came ricochetting across the water, but fell short by a hundred yards.

From The Tory Maid by Herbert Baird Stimpson

He had just lain down on a soaking couch of spruce boughs when the ricochetting echo of a gun set the boulders crashing down the precipices.

From Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut




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