immortalize

"For a melanocyte to transform into cancer, one of the biggest hurdles is to immortalize itself. Once it can do that, it's well on its way to cancer."

From Science Daily ● Jul. 1, 2026

The pharaohs of ancient Egypt built pyramids in the Valley of Kings to immortalize themselves.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2025

This shouldn’t seem like a radical act except that Ross uses the technique to immortalize the days of Black Americans in the South whose lives are more often looked at than through.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2024

She was 8 when the family moved to the riverside farm Aldo Leopold would immortalize in “A Sand County Almanac.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2024

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

At Notre Dame: The movie “Rudy” immortalizes a real-life 1975 Notre Dame-Georgia Tech game in which a walk-on football player and a teammate sacked the opposing quarterback, helping the Fighting Irish win 24-3.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026

Diltz captures the mischief in Young, immortalizes him as an agent of chaos, the kind of guy who might show up one day with a bush baby on his shoulder.

From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2023

She also does the character— and Carrie Fisher, who immortalizes Leia as an adult— proud.

From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2022

Such poignant lyricism, however, isn’t only mined from the everyday tragedies and triumphs of the real people she immortalizes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2021

The graffiti on the walls was marked by Deckers and their friends, sometimes the last piece of themselves the Deckers have left behind, something that immortalizes them.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera

Actress and singer Jane Birkin later immortalized the see-through crochet dress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

When they were kids, the Staten Island, N.Y.-based crew sought them out in theaters on 42nd Street in Manhattan, the low-culture hub immortalized as The Deuce.

From Salon ● May 31, 2026

The astronauts -- who immortalized the famous "Earthrise" photograph taken from lunar orbit -- were credited with having "saved 1968."

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

Acclaimed novelist Larry McMurtry knew, because he grew up in Archer City, Texas, which he immortalized in his 1966 novel “The Last Picture Show,” and where he established his “book town.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026

The photo of that moment was immortalized in the yearbook picture Otto and Sheed would discover many years later.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

Although a passionate reader, he was a terrible speller, immortalizing “tea” as “tae” in a 1961 painting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Movie legend Tom Cruise and the player's pop star-turned-fashion designer wife Victoria Beckham will be at the ceremony on June 12 to unveil the plaque immortalizing the British midfielder on Hollywood's most famous thoroughfare.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

To cherish O’Hara for these immortalizing parts is to acknowledge her awareness that a parent’s relationship with each of their children is a two-hander.

From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2026

In immortalizing it in stone forever, there was an acceptance that once she stepped into this new role, there was no going back to what was.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2024

Haas, an archaeologist at the Field Museum of Natural History, in Chicago, had plucked the fabric from the earth minutes before, two graduate students immortalizing the operation with digital cameras.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann