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comeback
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A comeback (or come-from-behind ) is an occurrence of an athlete or sports team engaged in a competition overcoming a substantial disadvantage in points or position, particularly if this results in the disadvantaged team winning. It has been described as ...
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n. a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one); "it brought a sharp rejoinder from the teacher" [syn: rejoinder , retort , return , riposte , replication , counter ] return by a celebrity to some previously successful activity ...
Usage examples of comeback.
Alf Brummel never was good at comebacks for stupid or illtimed questions.
SO utter was the rout that it seemed impossible for the crooks to stage a comeback.
I have searched for my Hanis, hoping he would, with the reincarnation of souls, comeback to me, forsaking all others for, he, my true love.
Now, if Clay had little patience with humans in general, he had even less with humans who invaded his privacy and could only manage the lamest of comebacks.
This fandango of Sunbelt delegate contests allows Edwards, Lieberman and Graham, who are all likely to finish out of the money in Iowa and New Hampshire, to construct credible scenarios for stirring comebacks.
A former antique shop on Zwinger Street was now making a brave comeback as a restaurant, and the Petrified Bagel was furnished, appropriately, with junk.
My own relationship with Buchanan goes back to the New Hampshire primary in 1968 when Nixon was still on the dim fringes of his political comeback.
By the time the lemmings have made a comeback, the Arctic grasslands will also have rejuvenated, in part as a result of the many corpses left in the wake of the lemming famine.
I didn't say anything to that, couldn't think of a comeback that wouldn't be snide.
I scanned the opening sentence- "Sculptor Dane Blackmoor has had more comebacks than an alley cat has lives.
He had had very little leisure for thinking, and so it was a moment or two before he realised that this was not the comeback of the tall bony partner.
I wasn't going to tell on Ruebens and Humans First, so I had to save my smart alec comebacks for later use.
A comeback stuck in Liska's mouth as she got her first look at Ogden's dining companion.
Who knows, maybe the red spruce and sugar maple could make comebacks.