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Comeback


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Though the 54-year-old designer made brief returns to the limelight after his fall from grace, designing a one-off collection for Oscar de la Renta last year , his appointment at Margiela marks a more permanent comeback.
  • (2) Not long ago the comeback would have been impossible to imagine.
  • (3) In Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia – three countries that toppled three dictators nearly four years ago – 2014 marked something of a comeback for the concept of strongman leadership.
  • (4) "What this proves is that the way Bowie engineered his comeback was a stroke of genius," said music writer Simon Price.
  • (5) Europe produced the greatest comeback in the tournament's history to reel in the US and retain the trophy.
  • (6) The San Francisco Giants are baseball's new comeback kings and will face the Detroit Tigers in the 2012 World Series.
  • (7) 3.46am BST Here's the instant response from Ewen MacAskill , at the scene of the debate-crime: Barack Obama staged a strong comeback in his second showdown with Mitt Romney, with the president describing his Republican opponent as "offensive" in suggesting he was playing politics over Benghazi and portraying him as more extreme than George W Bush on social issues such as women's rights.
  • (8) Rarely used in southern Europe these days but surely due for a comeback.
  • (9) That would usually be the point of the match, having gone in 2-0 down at the interval, when United would be expected to set about trying to add another story to their portfolio of exceptional comebacks.
  • (10) It's a combination of very fast comeback, catchphrases and the occasional very original insight, which he throws in to keep you off balance".
  • (11) That has changed over the past few years as wallpaper has made a comeback and women have remembered that they like wearing madly patterned dresses – particularly leopard-print ones, or ones with huge flowers.
  • (12) He has remained mostly out of sight since his defeat, but recently, while stopping short of any explicit pledge of a comeback, he and his entourage have dropped heavy hints that he may return to the frontline of French politics to "save" the country.
  • (13) Like a ghost from the past, Haye, who pulled out of two fights with Fury, eased himself back into the limelight before his own comeback and told the Evening Standard that the new champion would lose respect if he did not give him a title shot one day.
  • (14) Dusan Tadic was introduced at the break and looked a catalyst for a comeback.
  • (15) It completed a Carolina comeback from six points down with 1:52 left.
  • (16) There is a bit of tennis left in this tie, with Australia awaiting in the semi-final following their comeback win against Kazakhstan.
  • (17) Chosen number one in the 2012 draft as a replacement for Peyton Manning, Luck has already built a reputation as a comeback king, engineering 10 fourth quarter or overtime regular season game winning drives, more than any other quarterback in his first two seasons.
  • (18) In the last few weeks, Miami has had to rely on comebacks, most memorably when they dug themselves out a 27-point hole against the Cleveland Cavaliers .
  • (19) Gerrard got on from the bench, but is not deemed ready for an international comeback and Jagielka blemished an otherwise solid shift by conceding the penalty.
  • (20) Here's what happened the last time these two sides played here in mid-October: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 3.27am GMT Preamble Hello, and welcome to the Western Conference semi-final second leg between Portland Timbers and Seattle Sounders , in which Portland try to defend a slim lead and Seattle continue their annual quest to make a second leg playoff comeback actually count.

Popularity


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being popular; especially, the state of being esteemed by, or of being in favor with, the people at large; good will or favor proceeding from the people; as, the popularity of a law, statesman, or a book.
  • (n.) The quality or state of being adapted or pleasing to common, poor, or vulgar people; hence, cheapness; inferiority; vulgarity.
  • (n.) Something which obtains, or is intended to obtain, the favor of the vulgar; claptrap.
  • (n.) The act of courting the favor of the people.
  • (n.) Public sentiment; general passion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Breast conserving surgery in patients with small tumors combined with radiation therapy has gained wide popularity due to better cosmetic results without significant changes in survival.
  • (2) The popularly used procedure in Great Britain is that in which a sheet of Ivalon sponge is sutured to the sacrum and wrapped around the rectum thus anchoring it in place.
  • (3) And perhaps it’s this longevity that accounts for her popularity: a single tweet from Williams (who has 750,000 followers) about the series will prompt a Game Of Thrones news story.
  • (4) The fall of a tyrant is usually the cause of popular rejoicing followed by public vengeance.
  • (5) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
  • (6) While superheroes like “superman” (21st in SplashData’s 2014 rankings) and “batman” (24th) may be popular choices for passwords, the results if they are cracked could be anything other than super – and users will only have themselves to blame.
  • (7) Three-dimensional (3D) medical graphics is becoming popular in clinical use on tomographic scanners.
  • (8) Although left heart bypass has gained popularity as a powerful technique to assist the severely failed left heart, apparent right heart failure has often developed during the bypass procedure.
  • (9) As a strategy to reach hungry schoolchildren, and increase domestic food production, household incomes and food security in deprived communities, the GSFP has become a very popular programme with the Ghanaian public, and enjoys solid commitment from the government.
  • (10) Welcomed with open arms a month ago, Syrians are now attacked on popular television talkshows where they are described as Morsi sympathisers.
  • (11) Nevertheless, Richard Bacon MP, a member of the Public Accounts Committee, who has tirelessly tracked failings in NHS IT, said last night: "I think the chances that Lorenzo will be turned into a credible and popular product are vanishingly small.
  • (12) Summers was not a popular choice among many of the World Bank's developing country members.
  • (13) "It looks as if the noxious mix of rightwing Australian populism, as represented by Crosby and his lobbying firm, and English saloon bar reactionaries, as embodied by [Nigel] Farage and Ukip, may succeed in preventing this government from proceeding with standardised cigarette packs, despite their popularity with the public," said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of the health charity Action on Smoking and Health.
  • (14) Its Google Preferred initiative, launched in October 2014, packages up its most popular channels into more appealing media buys for big brands.
  • (15) In addition, various tissue cages and the use of skin blisters has been a popular means for testing antibiotic penetration into extra-cellular fluid.
  • (16) In addition, we will introduce our popular content to new UK audiences and create a comprehensive offering for our commercial partners on-air and online."
  • (17) While the Spielberg of popular myth is Mr Nice Guy, Lean was known as an obsessive, cantankerous tyrant who didn't much like actors and was only truly happy locked away in the editing suite.
  • (18) The data were analyzed by three popular assessment procedures typically found in the literature.
  • (19) Mr Bae stars in a popular drama, Winter Sonata, a tale of rekindled puppy love that has left many Japanese women hankering for an age when their own men were as sensitive and attentive as the Korean actor.
  • (20) Histomorphological responses of the ovary of a freshwater percoid fish, Colisa (T.) fasciatus, to endosulfan or thiodan EC 35 treatment, a popular pesticide, have been described.

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