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Recent Examples of welcome mat
The camera has a 150-degree field of view, capturing a wide angle and a head-to-toe look at visitors, even from close up, and packages or other items on your welcome mat.
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Maggie Horton, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Visual branding that will become more apparent as the days tick toward the Lightning’s October 9 home opener will merely serve as a welcome mat leading to a relationship among entities that have community investment at the core of their respective corporate blueprints.
—Tom Layberger, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
So, Hochul put out the welcome mat for the Texas Democrats, who, even by being out of the state, are doing what their constituents elected them to do — look out for their interests.
—Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 10 Aug. 2025
The ceremony: Saturday, 1 p.m. ET Thursday’s game serves more as the welcome mat for what the weekend is really about, which is the enshrinement of the newest members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
—Saad Yousuf, New York Times, 31 July 2025
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Maggie Horton, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Visual branding that will become more apparent as the days tick toward the Lightning’s October 9 home opener will merely serve as a welcome mat leading to a relationship among entities that have community investment at the core of their respective corporate blueprints.
—Tom Layberger, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
So, Hochul put out the welcome mat for the Texas Democrats, who, even by being out of the state, are doing what their constituents elected them to do — look out for their interests.
—Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 10 Aug. 2025
The ceremony: Saturday, 1 p.m. ET Thursday’s game serves more as the welcome mat for what the weekend is really about, which is the enshrinement of the newest members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
—Saad Yousuf, New York Times, 31 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for welcome mat
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Construction could last about four months in 2027 and about a month in 2028, depending on permit approval, Moreno wrote in an email.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacbee.com,
28 Sep. 2025
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With final approval, the district will now form a seven-member architectural review committee that will be charged with devising design review guidelines for the area.—
Killian Baarlaer,
Louisville Courier Journal,
28 Sep. 2025
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The rules authorized in 2023 granted special permission to PAMM and the nearby Arsht Center performance hall to build digital billboards more than twice as large as what’s allowed elsewhere in the city.—
Douglas Hanks,
Miami Herald,
24 Sep. 2025
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Baldoni’s lawyers had achieved court permission to obtain messages between Swift and Lively after Lively’s team failed to block Swift’s involvement in the case altogether.—
Jack Dunn,
Variety,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Welcome mat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/welcome%20mat. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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