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memento

[muh-men-toh] / məˈmɛn toʊ /


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And Wawrinka carried a memento of those shorts in his final French Open outing, with a strip of the fabric sewn on to his shirt.

From BBC May 25, 2026

A couple, out for a stroll, asked an AFP journalist to take a photo of them, a memento of a nice date back on their island home.

From Barron's Apr. 22, 2026

Kelson’s memento mori, in its way, adds dignity to what is otherwise a sentence to nothingness.

From Salon Jan. 23, 2026

After dinner, I pass out little memento goodies such as honey, tea, candy or jams as party favors.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 4, 2025

The memento was not for him but for Mary Jane Welles, wife of Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles and one of Mary Todd Lincoln’s few friends in Washington.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

And now, all of these years later, you feel ostracized from your remaining family and, more than that, you were left with a few mementoes of those formative years and no inheritance.

From MarketWatch Jul. 7, 2026

She is moved by the sight of the mementoes left by other pilgrims at the foot of the cross and adds Tom and Lizzie’s things to the pile.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 23, 2026

It may keep mementoes of successes, souvenirs that mark important events, treasured valuable items and things that may seem mundane and trivial to some but give meaning to others.

From Salon Jan. 19, 2025

Describing herself variously as a surrogate mother or mental coach to Sala, she showed us the many photographs and other mementoes of their friendship.

From BBC Oct. 17, 2022

He offered Seabiscuit mementoes for newspaper raffles and sent oversized Seabiscuit Christmas cards to scores of reporters.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

“I wasn’t expecting an offer or anything,” Conlon said recently in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion office he has occupied for 20 years and laden with mementos soon to be boxed.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 18, 2026

She becomes the de facto “keeper” of these letters and more mementos — a “strange gift,” she writes, the paper trail of something that should never have happened.

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 2026

There were long-out-of-date policies, receipts, family photographs, work mementos and then, undetected at the back of one of the steel grey drawers, was a brown envelope marked 'Everton: Season Ticket Sales'.

From BBC Jan. 20, 2026

Pooh Corner has been a gift shop and tea room close to Pooh Sticks Bridge in Hartfield since 1978 and is filled with mementos.

From BBC Dec. 24, 2025

So Jinx must’ve been the one who’d hidden the letters and mementos under the floorboards at Shady’s house.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool




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