ovation
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His remarks drew an ovation from 1,500 guests at Havana’s Palace of Conventions, including delegates from Communist parties stretching from Chile to China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
US-indicted Cuban leader Raul Castro received a standing ovation as he appeared in public for the first time in months Thursday, attending an event in Havana to mark the centenary of his brother Fidel's birth.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
The board then voted unanimously to grant him the emeritus title and gave him a standing ovation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
The 141 Tisza deputies in parliament gave a standing ovation as the results of the vote passing the amendment were announced on Monday.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
The nuns had been flattered, the audience had stood up and given "our devoted teachers a standing ovation," what Laura had suggested they do at the end of the speech.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
Standing ovations are almost de rigueur in formal Washington, but I don’t think I ever heard one of such prolonged intensity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
It was only meant to be 20 minutes long but in the end he got 12 standing ovations.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
Machado, who won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, got two standing ovations from the hundreds of attendees in the room at the CeraWeek conference put on by S&P Global.
From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026
Republicans stood, offering one of the longest standing ovations of the night.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026
Because of my ADD, I have done some wacky stuff in the past—where unfortunately, there were no standing ovations!
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
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