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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

The very notion that generosity can boomerang may at first seem counterintuitive.

From Slate Mar. 23, 2025

Not wanting to be left out, I fired Leopardon’s Arc Turn weapon, a gold boomerang that launched from the mech’s forehead.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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

"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

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

While it succeeded in bringing a game to the streaming service, a few too many choices resulted in either dead-ends or storytelling boomerangs that ultimately put the viewer on rails.

From Los Angeles Times May 20, 2020

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

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

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

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

For Lexie, the precedent was not quite so clear: her mother had grown up in Shaker and had never gone far—just down to Denison for her undergrad before boomeranging back.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng




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