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The full-time whistle at Windsor Park was met by jeers, which then turned to a loud round of applause.

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She talked about how much she loves this city — “F— ICE forever,” she said at one point to huge applause — but bemoaned the “weird professionalism” she can feel when she’s onstage in L.A.

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"To the hostages themselves: you are coming home," Witkoff said, prompting applause and cheers from thousands gathered at the Tel Aviv plaza known as Hostages' Square.

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At mile 7, the first trail runner burst from trees glittering in the early sun to the applause of volunteers and family.

His remains are to stay in a cemetery outside Paris, but officers carried a symbolic casket draped in a French flag into the former church on the capital's left bank under a cascade of applause.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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