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
Tired tempers frayed among youngsters who each day come to collect rice or bread to bring home to their families.
From BBC • Jan. 16, 2025
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
And an analysis of video feeds showed that what the military might have seen was Ahmadi and a colleague loading canisters of water into his trunk to bring home to his family.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 13, 2021
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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