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memento

[muh-men-toh] / məˈmɛn toʊ /


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His first book, “Lessons and Carols,” was published in 2023, and his second book, a digital memento mori, is expected in 2026.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 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

I wanted to know about the skeleton key, the last remaining memento from the Lucky Bill cigar box.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

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

He started keeping mementoes when organisations such as Kelloggs, Essex Police and Maxwell House would advertise on the bottles.

From BBC Sep. 1, 2024

I remember something, too, of the green grave-mounds; and I have not forgotten, either, two figures of strangers straying amongst the low hillocks and reading the mementoes graven on the few mossy head-stones.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

“I wasn’t expecting an offer or anything,” Conlon said recently in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion office he has occupied for 20 years and laden with mementos soon to be boxed.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 18, 2026

There were long-out-of-date policies, receipts, family photographs, work mementos and then, undetected at the back of one of the steel grey drawers, was a brown envelope marked 'Everton: Season Ticket Sales'.

From BBC Jan. 20, 2026

Pooh Corner has been a gift shop and tea room close to Pooh Sticks Bridge in Hartfield since 1978 and is filled with mementos.

From BBC Dec. 24, 2025

Epstein kept mementos of his famous friends at his properties.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 14, 2025

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

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow




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