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homecoming

[hohm-kuhm-ing] / ˈhoʊmˌkʌm ɪŋ /




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Players pray as they always have: for protection from injury, from the embarrassment of a missed tackle or muffed punt, to impress their homecoming date or to attract the attention of scouts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

And while the return to Cal will not be a homecoming for Bhaghani, a San Diego native, the game is important to him too.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

It also means a sort of homecoming for LACO, which gave its first concert in 1969 in the then-new Mark Taper Forum, the last of the Music Center’s initial three venues.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

Endangered antelopes flown to Kenya from Czech Republic in 'historic homecoming'

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

As unfamiliar as Judaism still is, there's a feeling of homecoming about it all.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

All were embarking on the hardest of homecomings, beginning all over again - with almost nothing.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

Twenty captives were crossing over Israel’s border to jubilant homecomings, but Bipin wasn’t among them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025

Her homecomings once brought the comfort of movie nights and card games, but this year was different.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

So, yes, to your earlier point, these last few visits to L.A. have been somewhat charged homecomings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2023

And so, like many of our homecomings, this one was bittersweet.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown




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