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boomerang

verb as in backfire

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Example Sentences

If there's good news, it's that boomerang babies aren't entirely those who can't afford to live on their own.

It would be one thing to attack her judicial philosophy, but attacks on her character as a Latina may well boomerang.

Snakes were always killed with sticks, whilst birds were brought down with the wonderful boomerang.

The well-known instrument called the boomerang is Australian, and it is, perhaps, exclusively so.

Figure 114 is the Nubian sword, which in form exactly resembles the boomerang.

This much, all curved weapons of the boomerang form possess as a common property.

The New Zealander throws his pattoo-pattoo, and the Australian throws the dowak and the waddy, as well as his boomerang.

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On this page you'll find 23 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to boomerang, such as: backlash, react, rebound, recoil, return, and reverse.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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