memorialize
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“We Are Charlie Kirk,” an A.I. song originally meant to memorialize him, was immediately reappropriated as a joke.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
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
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
Since the day she died, I’ve felt that Lucy was only mine to memorialize and that if I faltered, I’d be letting her down in the worst kind of way.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
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Hargitay has had a great run recently: Earlier this month, she won two Emmys for her self-directed 2025 documentary, “My Mom Jayne,” which memorializes her mother, Jayne Mansfield.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
Bill Boyd’s family memorializes him at his hardware store.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
Allen stopped by last summer and tried mightily to be the first name on the “rock of fame,” where Nantz memorializes friends who ace the hole.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2025
Inside the creative, caring and controversial website that memorializes the dead.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2024
Barlow, Joel, N. W.'s classmate, 4; a classic author, 48; memorializes Congress on copyright laws, 50; his poetry lightly esteemed by N. W., 281.
From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Horace E. Scudder
It’s lovely to see our own stress about mortality memorialized onscreen, especially in a dark comedy with showstopping production values.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Moncks Corner Mayor Thomas Hamilton Jr. also memorialized the Lowcountry singer, writing on Facebook that his family was “heartbroken” to hear about the accident.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 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
What really became of that vote is another matter, not memorialized in any public place I can see.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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El-Sayed’s campaign had already released a video condemning and memorializing 9/11 that morning.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Throughout his time here, he painted whenever he could, memorializing the lakes, forests and mountains that surrounded him.
From Salon ● May 2, 2026
Writer Douglas Kearney illuminates it strikingly in the curatorial statement etched into a back wall in “sister dreamer”: “… it’s the sacred phenomenon of luxe space that remembers without memorializing, celebrates without eulogizing. An anti-tomb.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 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
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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