bounce back
phrasal verb
bounced back; bouncing back; bounces back
: to return quickly to a normal condition after a difficult situation or event
She bounced back easily from her surgery.
After losing the first three games of the series, they bounced back to win their next eight games.
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On the other bench, Capitals winger Tom Wilson had his own two-year, post-ACL production lull before bouncing back in a big way in 2024-25.
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The Athletic Nhl, New York Times, 3 May 2025
Turns out, this was by design—and the color choices even helped the city bounce back from some extremely hard times.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 May 2025
And he’s bounced back from slow starts before, having finished every full season of his Dodgers tenure with above-league-average production at the plate.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2025
These returns are with decades-old material, which only fell away recently, and which loves to bounce back to the tallies with regularity.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
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The Athletic Nhl, New York Times, 3 May 2025
Turns out, this was by design—and the color choices even helped the city bounce back from some extremely hard times.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 May 2025
And he’s bounced back from slow starts before, having finished every full season of his Dodgers tenure with above-league-average production at the plate.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2025
These returns are with decades-old material, which only fell away recently, and which loves to bounce back to the tallies with regularity.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for bounce back
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“Bounce back.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bounce%20back. Accessed 9 May. 2025.
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