bring home to
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When the Constitutional Convention concluded on Sept. 17, 1787, its president, George Washington, bought a four-volume edition of “Don Quixote” from a Philadelphia bookseller to bring home to Mount Vernon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
Goro Miyazaki, whose own films include “From Up on Poppy Hill” and “Tales From Earthsea,” said they had to use a hotel towel to wrap the Oscar to bring home to his father.
From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2024
It seemed, emphatically, to be the face of a good guy, the kind you definitely wanted to bring home to your parents.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2023
But tripping through the cosmos with her long-deceased father did bring home to her that “you have all these connections. You have all this love. ... You don’t have to hurt yourself.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2023
Alvarez had hoped to bring home to Ernest two pieces of good news: the GAC’s approval of the reactor, and its assent to a crash program for the Super.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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