memento

A couple, out for a stroll, asked an AFP journalist to take a photo of them, a memento of a nice date back on their island home.

From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026

An hour passes, but we’re all determined to take a piece of this day home — more than a memento, but proof that we were a part of it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026

At the end of her visit, she was gifted a Wakefield Trinity shirt as a memento.

From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2026

His so-called “bone temple” is an actualization of his life philosophy, memento mori, which translates from Latin as “Remember you must die.”

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026

“I don’t need a memento because I’m not going to forget him.”

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

And now, all of these years later, you feel ostracized from your remaining family and, more than that, you were left with a few mementoes of those formative years and no inheritance.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026

She is moved by the sight of the mementoes left by other pilgrims at the foot of the cross and adds Tom and Lizzie’s things to the pile.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

It may keep mementoes of successes, souvenirs that mark important events, treasured valuable items and things that may seem mundane and trivial to some but give meaning to others.

From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2025

Earlier this month, Yarnell held a memorial run and opened a commemorative exhibit of paintings, photographs, poetry and mementoes salvaged from the fire.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

Tucked in between old woolen socks and pants were mementoes: circus bills, a dance card, penny postcards, a few photos.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

Biles has also filled the home with more personal touches, particularly inside her private office, where she has begun displaying mementos from her decorated gymnastics career.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

She becomes the de facto “keeper” of these letters and more mementos — a “strange gift,” she writes, the paper trail of something that should never have happened.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

Mel has a box full of letters, cards and other mementos from her time with the man she married in 2024.

From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026

“In the state of Arkansas, we’re a very split Republican Party,” said Crocker, wearing a black cowboy hat in his office, thick with mementos from his decades in the Green Berets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

As mementos, visitors stole ears of corn from the field and sawed young fruit trees into pieces of wood.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow