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ricochet

verb as in rebound

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A nurse has spoken about the moment he helped save the life of a three-year-old Palestinian girl with a bullet lodged in her neck after it had ricocheted through her mother's body.

From BBC

The consequences of the operation, he fears, could ricochet across the economy that powers farms, dairies and food processing plants.

But that was happening in my life at the time we wrote it and made it, so it’s hard to say no entirely because these things always ricochet off each other.

New kicker Matthew Wright lifted the Kansas City Chiefs to a 19-17 victory over the Chargers on Sunday night with a 31-yard field goal that miraculously ricocheted through the uprights.

Smith was looking to leave, but extra bounce had the ball ricochet off his bat and down on to middle stump.

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

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