as in recovers
to regain a former or normal state
once the cleanup from the hurricane is completed, business owners are hoping that tourism quickly bounces back
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But unless the ball rolls out of the end zone, the play is live until somebody recovers the ball, as the referee explained on the microphone after the play.—
Saad Yousuf,
New York Times,
14 Sep. 2025 -
This approach recovers as much as 80% of the original capacity.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Sep. 2025
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Angel Reese #5 of the Chicago Sky rebounds the ball against the Connecticut Sun at Wintrust Arena on September 3, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois.—
Michael Gallagher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
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Astral Weeks Becomes a Bestseller Again At the same time, one of Van Morrison’s oldest collections also rebounds.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Dragonfly nymphs have a lower section of their mandibles that kind of unhinges, shoots forward, grabs stuff, and comes back in again, so very much like the Alien!—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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That keeps dilution low at the start, but if the stock rallies, the share count expands on conversion—once again, diluting investors.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Aug. 2025
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Determined to prove themselves, Torrance rallies her team to create an original routine and face the Clovers in the national championships.—
Diane J. Cho,
People.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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The matte, blasted steel and titanium case is comfortable on its textured rubber strap, and the satellite hours and a 240° retrograde minutes hand that snaps back like a scorpion’s sting at the turn of each hour will spark dozens of conversations.—
Thor Svaboe,
Robb Report,
9 Sep. 2025
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For Bear, the new arrangement is great about 99 percent of the time… the only drawback is that Nikki occasionally snaps back into her old self and screams in utter terror for a few seconds, before resuming the love-bombing.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Bounces (back).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bounces%20%28back%29. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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