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memorialize

[muh-mawr-ee-uh-lahyz, -mohr-] / məˈmɔr i əˌlaɪz, -ˈmoʊr- /


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In the indictment, prosecutors portrayed Bolton as driven by his eagerness to memorialize his day-to-day life in Trump’s first term.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 4, 2026

Self-proclaimed Parrot Heads—who still slap stickers on the building and leave flip-flops, salt shakers and other assorted memorabilia outside as a shrine to sunny good times—want instead to memorialize the studio forever.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 8, 2026

Every year, Amicus co-hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern invite listeners to nominate the Supreme Court’s most egregious behavior, then choose their own “worst of the worst” to memorialize the most ignominious moments.

From Slate Jan. 3, 2026

At Image, we often talk about the magazine as a living archive of Los Angeles — a space to capture and memorialize all the vibrant things happening across this city.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 18, 2025

“The first, of course, is to memorialize the indictment,” Mr. Julian goes on.

From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone

Bill Boyd’s family memorializes him at his hardware store.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 12, 2026

But it is her devotion to the craft that the special lovingly memorializes.

From Salon May 14, 2025

On the one hand, it memorializes an origin of Bachardy’s intense commitment to portraiture as an artistic genre.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 17, 2025

Inside the creative, caring and controversial website that memorializes the dead.

From Slate Oct. 27, 2024

The occurrence of a fish and a ring on the arms of the city of Glasgow memorializes a legend in which we find the same singular combination of circumstances.

From Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Various

President Reagan had just been elected, consumerism was back in vogue and a new wave of Hollywood films memorialized “a sleek city defined by these noirish neon nights and these bright, intense, colorful days.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

He’s memorialized in corridos, or Mexican folk ballads.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 12, 2026

As I recently wrote, he is only concerned with how he will be memorialized.

From Salon Apr. 5, 2026

The most practical solution: Community property with right of survivorship or, as a halfway point, a clearly drafted life-estate agreement, ideally memorialized in a postnuptial agreement to fend off any disgruntled stepchildren.

From MarketWatch Feb. 12, 2026

Next time I will bring the video camera, so his stories will be memorialized forever.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

Throughout his time here, he painted whenever he could, memorializing the lakes, forests and mountains that surrounded him.

From Salon May 2, 2026

“Death of the Last Cowhand” here is a touching poem by rancher Linda Hasselstrom memorializing the last days of a nonagenarian cowboy who literally died with his boots on.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 2, 2026

A team from Georgetown University is investigating their deaths at the House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children, a segregated juvenile detention facility in Cheltenham, Maryland, and memorializing them.

From Barron's Feb. 27, 2026

But his brother Craig’s memorializing of him, “Armed Only With a Camera,” is oddly uninvolving, more an excerpted flipbook of Brent’s far-flung assignments than a meaningful portrait of excelling at a dangerous job.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 20, 2026

Oppenheimer, writing for the group, dispatched to Washington a dispirited one-page memo on June 16 memorializing their conclusion.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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