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Few athletes - if any - at the Games got a bigger ovation than Goodburn and he says it was a privilege to compete in front of a home crowd.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Nasa absorbed his ovation, then took his bench in the middle of the orchestra with a little monitor displaying the movie on his piano.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
His perfectionism was his best friend and worst enemy: One source remembers him playing to a crowd of 60,000 and receiving a standing ovation, only to come off stage and say, “I suck.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
The board then voted unanimously to grant him the emeritus title and gave him a standing ovation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
The Chokecherry crowd, who don’t know any better, leap to their feet in a thunderous standing ovation.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
Standing ovations are almost de rigueur in formal Washington, but I don’t think I ever heard one of such prolonged intensity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Machado, who won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, got two standing ovations from the hundreds of attendees in the room at the CeraWeek conference put on by S&P Global.
From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026
The ovations were strong and heartfelt, the mutual appreciation, well, blindingly obvious.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026
And don’t get me started on the endless, infantile standing ovations.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 24, 2026
“I got three standing ovations that night,” she said.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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