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Narrator: Today's word is "Ricochet" — verb, pronounced /ˈrɪkəʃeɪ/, with the stress on "ric".
Narrator: To ricochet is to hit a surface and bounce off it at an angle.
Narrator: In plain English, it means bounce off and fly away.
Narrator: It comes from French ricochet, the skipping of a stone on water.
Narrator: A common collocation is "ricochet off the wall", which describes a ball bouncing away.
Narrator: It differs from "bounce", because a ricochet glances off at speed and at an angle.
Narrator: In a second sense, effects can ricochet through an economy, spreading unexpectedly.
Narrator: Sport, physics, gaming and news all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: ricochet means glance off and fly on.
Speaker A: How did the goal go in?
Speaker B: It RICOCHETED off a defender! It comes from French for skimming stones.
Speaker A: Lucky?
Speaker B: Very lucky.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "The ball ricocheted into the net", football. "The stone ricocheted across the pond", a walk. "The crisis ricocheted through markets", finance.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Both "ricocheted" and "ricochetted" exist, but "ricocheted" is more common.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Rebound is its cousin, deflect its twin, and bounce an alternative — yet ricochet keeps its zippy charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "ricochet" in AI prompts — useful for game physics and sports commentary.
Speaker A: How for games?
Speaker B: Physics.
Prompt: Write code that makes a projectile ricochet off walls using the reflection angle.
Speaker A: And sport?
Speaker B: Commentary.
Prompt: Write a lively commentary line for a shot that ricochets off the post.
Speaker A: Could it help finance?
Speaker B: Yes, for explainers.
Prompt: Explain how a bank failure can ricochet through the economy.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Science.
Prompt: Explain the physics of why a skimmed stone ricochets on water.
Ricochet — meaning in Arabic & definition More R courses GL Dictionary