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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Johnson bounced back from that setback with a May 2024 majority decision win over Nina Hughes to win the WBA bantamweight belt.
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Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
When the pyrotechnics were canceled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the sparrow populations bounced back.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 4 July 2025
Armour Black bounced back with a straight set victory over High Performance of St. Louis, then outlasted Pulse 18 of Anaheim, California, 26-24, 20-25, 15-11 to stay alive and advance to Thursday’s elite eight bracket.
—Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 July 2025
Health care employment bounces back but not everywhere COVID-19 didn’t lead to a mass exodus of health care workers, as some experts predicted during the traumatic first year of the pandemic.
—Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
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Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
When the pyrotechnics were canceled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the sparrow populations bounced back.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 4 July 2025
Armour Black bounced back with a straight set victory over High Performance of St. Louis, then outlasted Pulse 18 of Anaheim, California, 26-24, 20-25, 15-11 to stay alive and advance to Thursday’s elite eight bracket.
—Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 July 2025
Health care employment bounces back but not everywhere COVID-19 didn’t lead to a mass exodus of health care workers, as some experts predicted during the traumatic first year of the pandemic.
—Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 2 July 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 Jul. 2025.
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