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comebacks

noun

plural of comeback

as in retorts

a quick witty response always ready with a comeback for every insult

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something spoken or written in reaction especially to a question regardless of the question posed by the prosecutor, the witness had a plausible comeback

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Recent Examples of comebacks The Bears had a knack for big plays in big moments last season — just look at their seven fourth-quarter comebacks and a league-leading number of takeaways. — Nbc Sports, NBC news, 26 Aug. 2026 Four-time champion Max Verstappen, 110 points back after a poor start, remains a wild card, having demonstrated remarkable comebacks previously. — Beau Dure, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026 But that means in his own mind the abandonment and betrayal of his sense of identity as a tennis player who never gives up, who has staged so many comebacks. — John Hopewell, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026 Coach Kyle Shanahan revealed Tuesday that Bosa’s knee soreness is actually tendinitis, which Shanahan was advised happens in 90% of ACL comebacks. — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2026 As several high-profile men accused of abuse attempt public comebacks, what does this moment say about our culture’s relationship to accountability? — Krystie Lee Yandoli, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2026 Dell has made steady progress through his rehabilitation, but his recovery has been viewed as one of the league's most difficult injury comebacks because of the extraordinary extent of the damage. — Armando Salguero, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2026 Two of the craziest comebacks of the season came this week, courtesy of teams trying to stay in the American League wild card race. — ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026 There are plenty of recovery stories, but also horror ones, of promising careers derailed by too-quick comebacks or just imperfect treatment. — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 30 July 2026

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Noun

Owens has directly confronted Punk about his controversial past and treatment of mutual friends, prompting Punk's sharp retorts.

— Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Reached by phone for comment, David Pimm, the president of the Bohemian National Cemetery Association, said two of the cemetery’s three retorts, or furnaces, were not working due to an electrical fire.

— Gregory Royal Pratt, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of retorts

Noun

One of the more surreal responses to that experience is applause, which ripples through the audience of Paranormal Activity a beat after all the major scares, like rain settling in after a peal of thunder.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2026
Girls tend to be more adept at mimicking social responses like eye contact and reciprocal play.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of responses

Noun

Once connected, ChatGPT can pull up recent conversations, answer questions about what's in them, and compose and send replies as the user.

— Gabriel Alin Zainescu, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
After posting a video earlier this week asking if anyone else couldn’t stop purchasing diamonds via TikTok, his comment section quickly flooded with more than a thousand replies from people across the country, all confessing their little secret.

— Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of replies

Noun

Those conspiracy theories, Wagner said, are often ways of looking at the world that provide answers to questions when an outcome is too uncomfortable for people.

— Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
Saturday’s second preseason game against the Giants hopefully can yield some answers.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of answers

Noun

Meta also agreed to make changes to its platforms, including a default daily time limit of two hours for users under 18, a default block on nighttime use and a ban on displaying the number of likes and reactions on posts.

— Brittney Melton, NPR, 27 Aug. 2026
VanHall adds that most reactions—if people have them—are mild.

— Lindy Segal, Glamour, 27 Aug. 2026

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