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The journey's only half-finished until the hero comes home changed.

means To come or go back to a place, state, or person — or to give, send, or bring something back to where it came from.

from From Old French 'retorner,' itself a knitting-together of the Latin prefix 're-' ('back, again') and 'tornare' ('to turn on a lathe,' from 'tornus,' a turner's wheel). So at its root a return is literally a turning-back — the same 'tornare' that spins inside 'turn' and 'tournament.' English borrowed it in the medieval period, and it has been turning travelers homeward ever since.

keyboard origin
Named for the typewriter carriage that physically returned
tax season
Most filed returns are actually money owed back
physics
Diminishing returns is an actual mathematical curve
sports
A returned serve travels faster than the original
retail
Returns cost stores over 800 billion dollars yearly
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