make a comeback

1. Also, stage a comeback. Achieve a success after retirement or failure, as in After years in mediocre movies, she made a comeback on Broadway, or The humble hamburger is about to stage a comeback. [Colloquial; c. 1920] Also see come back, def. 1.

Example Sentences

What’s a trend from your youth that you would like to see make a comeback?

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U.K. digital bank Shawbrook said it aims to list on the London Stock Exchange in early November, the latest company cementing fundraising plans as initial public offerings in Europe make a comeback.

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The Original Pantry, the iconic eatery in downtown Los Angeles that closed earlier this year, is set to make a comeback.

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The irony allows Corben, Deen, and co. to ponder exactly why it is that celebrities like Mel Gibson are allowed to make a comeback after firing off racial and antisemitic slurs in a recorded tape, but Deen isn’t because she admitted to having used a slur, sometime in the distant past, and entirely off the record.

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For most of its career, Suede assumed Britpop — the movement the band helped originate in the early ’90s — wouldn’t make a comeback.

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