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commemoration

[kuh-mem-uh-rey-shuhn] / kəˌmɛm əˈreɪ ʃən /


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We wanted only to be suffused with his powers of Commemoration.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025

Proposed by Germany and Rwanda, it would designate 11 July as the “International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Genocide in Srebrenica.”

From Seattle Times • May 15, 2024

Commemoration events have been held every year on 22 June since 2018.

From BBC • Jun. 20, 2023

The United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration will host “Welcome Home! A Nation Honors our Vietnam Veterans and their Families,” an event on the National Mall in the nation’s capital which continues through Saturday.

From Washington Times • May 10, 2023

That year was rendered notable by his "Commemoration Ode," the worthy crowning of one of the grandest poetic opportunities ever granted to man.

From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by Lowell, James Russell




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