comeback

IPA: kˈʌmbæk

A return (e.g. to popularity, success, etc.) after an extended period of obscurity or underperformance.
A retort or answer, particularly a quick or clever one.
(sports) An occurrence of an athlete or sports team in a competition overcoming a substantial disadvantage in points to win or draw.

come back

IPA: kˈʌmbˈæk

(intransitive) To return to a place.
(intransitive) To return to one's possession, especially of memories.
(intransitive) To return to a former state, usually a desirable one; to become fashionable once more.
(intransitive) To retort.

He made a glorious comeback.
And the band is making a comeback.
Announcement of political comeback.
But there would be no such comeback.
Another comeback for a fifth Olympics.
Attempts to make a political comeback.
This began with the comeback of the dress.
And the thing with classicists having no comeback.
"Just the comeback is all that matters," Guerrero said.
I think this "comeback" is totally irrelevant and disengenuous.
And what she called a comeback looked a little more like desperation.
However, the team rallied behind the ailing McNabb and began a comeback.
In July 2004 Hamilton won the ESPY Award for Best Comeback Athlete of the Year.
If Carl Edwards is going to make a title comeback, he's going to need help - and Jimmie Johnson to lose speed.
Your comeback is the typical move-the-goalposts tirade with fancy bold letters very much preferred by the willfully ignorant.
(Soundbite of song, "Get Behind the Mule") MILES: I've never liked the term comeback because after a while, big players can never come back to what they were.
The last thing that a dethroaned celebrity icon needs by his side while trying to force a comeback is a reminder of George Bush, his lies and his failed neocon agenda hanging around your neck.

A sign that ALU come-back with the new management team is rather soon than late.
Ask Rick Perry, who went from a flattering Time cover to questions on whether he could come-back.
Who would have predicted Bill Clinton's come-back or that George H.W. Bush would be in trouble after he was riding high after the first Iraq invasion?
Ah! Now I see the (so-called) "conservative" come-back strategy - supply America with a steady stream of soap opera tales in hope that we will become beholden to them for melodramatic pablum!
That, you might argue, is the "free market" approach to sports enthusiasm, and while many regard this particular talker as a bit of a bully -- if you live in New York, you know who he is -- callers rarely provide the obvious come-back, professional sports are, purely speaking, not part of the free market.