commemorating

ADJECTIVE

retaining

Synonyms

STRONG

accommodating arresting cherishing confining embracing employing engaging having hiring holding keeping owning possessing preserving remembering reserving restraining saving securing seizing suppressing sustaining taking treasuring withholding working

WEAK

holding back

NOUN

remembering

Synonyms

STRONG

celebrating memorializing recollecting recollection reliving reminiscence reminiscing

WEAK

bringing back looking back thinking back thinking of

Antonyms

WEAK

forgetting overlooking

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commemorating

There’s a day for everything — and July 14 is, of course, most well known internationally for being Bastille Day, commemorating France’s independence.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

The thousands who turned up to witness it were offered baseball caps commemorating "Écône2026".

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

Anniversaries are funny things, commemorating the bad as well as the good in our shared and personal histories.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

They are thanked, and thanked, and thanked, by the emcees and by many tributes on-screen, including multiple A.I. slop videos commemorating soldiers past and present.

From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026

The cabinet also contains an ancient cracked plate commemorating the World’s Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, and a plastic cup bearing the nose and ears of a mouse.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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