immortalize

"For a melanocyte to transform into cancer, one of the biggest hurdles is to immortalize itself. Once it can do that, it's well on its way to cancer."

From Science Daily ● Jul. 1, 2026

The pharaohs of ancient Egypt built pyramids in the Valley of Kings to immortalize themselves.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2025

The new effort in Seattle emerges as a nationwide push to grapple with and immortalize the legacy and work of the Black Panther Party takes hold.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 14, 2024

But the world in general, and the art world in particular, has remained largely conservative about what kinds of bodies it chooses to depict, celebrate and immortalize.

From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2024

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

At Notre Dame: The movie “Rudy” immortalizes a real-life 1975 Notre Dame-Georgia Tech game in which a walk-on football player and a teammate sacked the opposing quarterback, helping the Fighting Irish win 24-3.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026

The statue outside Crypto.com Arena that immortalizes Lakers legend Kobe Bryant after his 81-point game in 2006 misspelled the names of two players and one word.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2024

Diltz captures the mischief in Young, immortalizes him as an agent of chaos, the kind of guy who might show up one day with a bush baby on his shoulder.

From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2023

She also does the character— and Carrie Fisher, who immortalizes Leia as an adult— proud.

From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2022

The graffiti on the walls was marked by Deckers and their friends, sometimes the last piece of themselves the Deckers have left behind, something that immortalizes them.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera

It was immortalized by the composer Johann Strauss II as “The Blue Danube,” but the views from today’s cruise-ship windows are heavy on the grey-brown hues of dried-up riverbeds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

The California Department of Motor Vehicles, long synonymous with slow lines and bureaucracy — immortalized by the sloths of the Department of Mammal Vehicles in Disney’s “Zootopia” — is expanding its digital services.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

When they were kids, the Staten Island, N.Y.-based crew sought them out in theaters on 42nd Street in Manhattan, the low-culture hub immortalized as The Deuce.

From Salon ● May 31, 2026

The astronauts -- who immortalized the famous "Earthrise" photograph taken from lunar orbit -- were credited with having "saved 1968."

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

So with computers on the way and honor codes being drawn up, I’m going to kick off our diary with a special visit from two people who have been immortalized in Anne Frank’s diary.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers

In the process, Wilson meets other eccentric characters that share his passion of filmmaking but have their own interests, like clearing gum from a sidewalk, immortalizing a person’s tattoo after they’re dead, and music.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Although a passionate reader, he was a terrible speller, immortalizing “tea” as “tae” in a 1961 painting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Movie legend Tom Cruise and the player's pop star-turned-fashion designer wife Victoria Beckham will be at the ceremony on June 12 to unveil the plaque immortalizing the British midfielder on Hollywood's most famous thoroughfare.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

To cherish O’Hara for these immortalizing parts is to acknowledge her awareness that a parent’s relationship with each of their children is a two-hander.

From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2026

Haas, an archaeologist at the Field Museum of Natural History, in Chicago, had plucked the fabric from the earth minutes before, two graduate students immortalizing the operation with digital cameras.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann