Example Sentences

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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 some ways, the flood of rap ads has boomeranged to help Mr. Delgado.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2018

GE’s reputation for complexity, which once earned it a certain mystique, has boomeranged on the industrial giant.

From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2018

Fred Giuffrida, a managing director at the venture fund of funds Horsley Bridge, told me that, in some circles, “unicorn has boomeranged to become a pejorative term.”

From The New Yorker • Jun. 12, 2016

The scramble for containment meant counselling was sidelined, an oversight that has boomeranged with vicious consequences.

From The Guardian • Sep. 4, 2014