memento
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Villa boss Unai Emery, who called Guardiola football's "only genius" in the build-up to the game, presented his fellow Spaniard with a memento before the match began.
From BBC • May 24, 2026
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
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
“If the disease has disappeared as it no doubt has,” wrote “Howard” in that day’s General Advertiser, “every memento of its existence should disappear with it, that the citizens may once more enjoy repose.”
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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