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memorialize

[muh-mawr-ee-uh-lahyz, -mohr-] / məˈmɔr i əˌlaɪz, -ˈmoʊr- /


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But for the rare travel enthusiast, they are so much more: a way to memorialize a favorite trip or claim their own piece of airline history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

“We Are Charlie Kirk,” an A.I. song originally meant to memorialize him, was immediately reappropriated as a joke.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

Biddy Mason was previously honored in 1989, when a mini-park off Spring and 3rd streets was built to memorialize her on her original homestead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

When Abraham Lincoln addressed the assembled crowd at Gettysburg, they had gathered to memorialize the past.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

Since the day she died, I’ve felt that Lucy was only mine to memorialize and that if I faltered, I’d be letting her down in the worst kind of way.

From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy

He was especially moved when he was riding in Pacoima and saw a Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens mural that memorializes the tragic plane crash that killed both Holly and Valens.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

Uche Okeke memorializes the Aba Women’s War of 1929, one of the first major anticolonial uprisings in Nigeria, with a throng of seething figures, their strength and determination reflected in vigorous brushstrokes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

And near Marsden Wharf, a sidewalk mosaic memorializes the ship and Fernando Pereira.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025

But it is her devotion to the craft that the special lovingly memorializes.

From Salon ● May 14, 2025

Barlow, Joel, N. W.'s classmate, 4; a classic author, 48; memorializes Congress on copyright laws, 50; his poetry lightly esteemed by N. W., 281.

From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Horace E. Scudder

The T1D Fund under its reconstituted board said in response that the LLC amendment “simply memorialized existing practice dating back to the fund’s inception rather than creating new signing authority.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

President Reagan had just been elected, consumerism was back in vogue and a new wave of Hollywood films memorialized “a sleek city defined by these noirish neon nights and these bright, intense, colorful days.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

In Dokoupil’s first months on the job, the show’s gaffes have been memorialized in news reports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

As I recently wrote, he is only concerned with how he will be memorialized.

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2026

Arriving to watch them play, Howard was delighted to see that the jockeys had memorialized his generosity by ordering their uniforms in Howard red and white, with the Howard signature triangle on them.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

Throughout his time here, he painted whenever he could, memorializing the lakes, forests and mountains that surrounded him.

From Salon ● May 2, 2026

Although Mr. Edwards’s iconic “Lynch Fragments” series embodied a specific memorializing of the black experience in America, he saw the meaning of his sculpture as universal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

A team from Georgetown University is investigating their deaths at the House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children, a segregated juvenile detention facility in Cheltenham, Maryland, and memorializing them.

From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026

Kirk’s death is now a meme, with A.I. parody songs memorializing his legacy and his face plastered onto figures like Shrek.

From Slate ● Dec. 28, 2025

Oppenheimer, writing for the group, dispatched to Washington a dispirited one-page memo on June 16 memorializing their conclusion.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik


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