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Ovations at Venice have not always been as extensive.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2024

Ovations at the Met were a long way from small-town Adjud, Romania, where she was born in 1965 to a dressmaker mother and a train operator father.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2023

Ovations for “Pulp Fiction” and “The Godfather,” which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, arguably made more sense.

From Washington Post • Mar. 28, 2022

Ovations for Sachin Tendulkar, who has not announced his retirement from one-day cricket, are beginning to become rather routine on this tour.

From The Guardian • Aug. 27, 2011

Ovations intended as a sort of reward or recognition of my services to the country, then, would be entirely out of place, and must not be thought of.

From Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess by Fischer, Henry W. (Henry William)