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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
ricochet .
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Examples
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The word ricocheted through his consciousness, the echo of a thousand cop shows he had watched during his time in America.
THE MOONLIT EARTH CHRISTOPHER RICE 2010
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The word ricocheted through his consciousness, the echo of a thousand cop shows he had watched during his time in America.
THE MOONLIT EARTH CHRISTOPHER RICE 2010
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The phrase ricocheted from one Murdoch-owned editorial page and television studio to the next; Obama was daily pilloried as a timorous pretender who, out of a misbegotten sense of liberal guilt, unearned self-regard, and downright unpatriotic acceptance of fading national glory, had handed over the steering wheel of global leadership to the Élysée Palace.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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The word ricocheted around Tobin’s brain like an assassin’s bullet.
Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003
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The word ricocheted around Tobin’s brain like an assassin’s bullet.
Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003
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The word ricocheted around Tobin’s brain like an assassin’s bullet.
Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003
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The word ricocheted around Tobin’s brain like an assassin’s bullet.
Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003
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Clips of the phone call ricocheted across the Web and cable TV.
Slate Magazine 2009
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But the video of the leader of the free world getting pelted with a pair of shoes, well, it kind of ricocheted around the globe today.
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The crackle of frantic radio calls ricocheted through the cop-filled trailer like one of my kids" dime-store bouncy balls.
Step on a Crack Patterson, James, 1947- 2007
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