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make a comeback

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  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.

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Here’s how it could make a comeback.

From MarketWatch

The actor has since attempted to make a comeback.

From Los Angeles Times

Islamic State, which seized control of a swath of Iraq and Syria in 2014, has sought to make a comeback during the uncertainty following the collapse of the Assad regime last December.

From The Wall Street Journal

If that happens, Morrison doesn’t see why the buck can’t make a comeback all the way to its levels from January some time next year.

From MarketWatch

Count me in as one of the geezers happy to see the sacrifice bunt make a comeback, that a few teams are finally defying the analytics and reviving the taboo tradition of moving a runner over, but Toronto skipper John Schneider’s decision to deploy a sacrifice bunt in the 11th to move Vlad Guerrero Jr. to third after Guerrero Jr.’s inning-opening double…that’s a tricky one.

From The Wall Street Journal

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