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keepsake

[keep-seyk] / ˈkipˌseɪk /


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What film keepsake do you wish you had?

From The Wall Street Journal May 19, 2026

Hurt and in desperate need of her friend, Andie goes to see Iona to ask for her ruffly pink prom dress, a keepsake she promised Andie if ever she wanted it.

From Salon Feb. 28, 2026

When the next mission to the International Space Station blasts off from Florida next week, a special keepsake will be hitching a ride: a small stuffed rabbit.

From Barron's Feb. 8, 2026

“Everything we worked so hard for — every photograph, every keepsake, every piece of our lives — has vanished.”

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 24, 2025

It was a keepsake, the one possession that remained from her previous life with her husband, John, who also worked for the CIA.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

Conjuring fossils, keepsakes, toys and relics, these nostalgic, tactile miniatures suggest that Duchamp, the consummate iconoclast, may have believed in the aesthetic, transformational power of art after all.

From The Wall Street Journal May 30, 2026

She said she wanted to leave the bags as "keepsakes" for her children and grandchildren.

From BBC May 21, 2026

Nearby were more family artifacts: photographs, keepsakes, fragments of lives divided across borders.

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 2026

Don eventually remarried and had three more kids, but he held on to a big box of Cynthia’s clothes and other keepsakes, including a lock of hair and bottle of her perfume.

From Slate Apr. 6, 2026

I grabbed my pillow, my keepsakes bag, some clothes, and my toothbrush.

From "Crenshaw" by Katherine Applegate




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