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Buehler’s second inning cost the Dodgers the game, and this doesn’t count Freddie Freeman’s throw to second base that ricocheted off Manny Machado’s helmet or the mistake Miguel Rojas made of trying to beat a runner to second base instead of flipping the ball to Gavin Lux.
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Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024
His advocacy campaign to remove Harvard’s then-president over plagiarism allegations ricocheted this year to Oxman apologizing for citation errors in her own PhD dissertation.
—Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Oct. 2024
Our tears are ricocheting after another round of voting in IndyStar's bracket to crown the city's favorite Taylor Swift song in advance of her performances here in November.
—Alysa Guffey, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Sep. 2024
Tagovailoa went limp, his head ricocheting off the field while his right arm involuntarily swung upward, fingers clawing at the sky.
—Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2024
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“Ricochet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ricochet. Accessed 2 Dec. 2024.
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