hero's welcome
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While Kawhi Leonard got an NBA Finals hero’s welcome back up north in Toronto, the Clippers did what they could to entice fans back to Intuit Dome.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Instead of getting a hero’s welcome in Tokyo, she spent years being dismissed like a hippie pariah.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The second Libyan, Al Amin Khalifah Fhimah was acquitted and returned home to a hero's welcome in Tripoli.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
He received a hero’s welcome in Hostage Square in Tel Aviv after forging a tenuous Gaza ceasefire last October, visibly moved as he was drowned out by appreciative shouts of “Thank you, Witkoff!”
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
When she returned, she got a hero’s welcome.
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
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