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memorial

[muh-mawr-ee-uhl, -mohr-] / məˈmɔr i əl, -ˈmoʊr- /




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On Saturday, preparations were underway for the victims' funerals the following day and church officials had dug a mass grave, which will become a memorial.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

Von Ferdinand began telling friends that Jett “wasn’t going to make it” and that she wanted to be cremated without any memorial service, Stephan said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Fellow delivery workers built a memorial outside the grocery store, according to the station.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

It is felt most strongly in the memorial garden on the site of the fallen school, and among the white arched monuments of the cemetery.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

What was the matter with a good old-fashioned memorial?

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge

There has been a wave of criticism in Germany after the town of Heidenau, near Dresden in Saxony, decided to ban "stumbling stone" memorials to victims of the Nazis.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

On college campuses, the day is now often observed through academic discussions instead of memorials.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

But 25 years on, I’ve learned that grief doesn’t live only in memorials and names read aloud once a year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

They encounter what happened through photographs, documentaries, memorials, classroom lessons and stories told by people who were alive on that day.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

The meeting hall is next to the church but separated from the grander building by a garden of white crosses, memorials to the deceased.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland


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