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Recent Examples of ricochet
The ball ricocheted off the back of the rim high into the air, then fell into the net.
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Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 22 May 2025
The rooms ricochet with Roman sunshine, thanks to enormous arched windows, and are outfitted with minimalist four-poster beds and (in the suites) voluptuously large baths.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 16 Apr. 2025
So Deng, Hani and Ma looked at what happens to Newton’s equations as the number of individual particles colliding and ricocheting grows to infinity and their size shrinks to zero.
—Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 14 Apr. 2025
Zalatoris gained on the hole eventually, but his approach into the green ricochetted into the greenside bunker.
—Brody Miller, The Athletic, 16 Mar. 2025
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Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 22 May 2025
The rooms ricochet with Roman sunshine, thanks to enormous arched windows, and are outfitted with minimalist four-poster beds and (in the suites) voluptuously large baths.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 16 Apr. 2025
So Deng, Hani and Ma looked at what happens to Newton’s equations as the number of individual particles colliding and ricocheting grows to infinity and their size shrinks to zero.
—Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 14 Apr. 2025
Zalatoris gained on the hole eventually, but his approach into the green ricochetted into the greenside bunker.
—Brody Miller, The Athletic, 16 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ricochet
Verb
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Teammates tried to stop them from fighting, but both players bounced emotionally away from the peacekeepers and tried to charge each other.—
Pat Leonard,
New York Daily News,
5 June 2025
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Durham says that to his knowledge, every check but one bounced.—
Dac Collins,
Outdoor Life,
5 June 2025
Verb
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Conclusions Stocks have rebounded as the odds of a recession have fallen.—
Bill Stone,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
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Could Trump cuts lead to ‘rebound’ in gun violence and deaths?—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
7 June 2025
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“Ricochet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ricochet. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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