as in welcomes
to receive or accept gladly or readily
a show-off who laps up attention the way a kitten does milk
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welcomes
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Fronting Lake Dora in the Tavares downtown entertainment district, the Tavares Seaplane Base & Marina welcomes seaplane pilots who arrive daily from points all across North America.—
Terry Ward,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Jan. 2025 -
And this also happens to be the day that the trauma center welcomes a new class of interns and residents, filling the ER with wide-eyed neophytes like Wyle’s John Carter was in the pilot for ER.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Jan. 2025
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“Laps (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laps%20%28up%29. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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