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memorialize

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


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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. 26, 2026

In the belly of a whale at a jazz venue in Little Tokyo, early 2014, I gathered with Fred Moten, Kima Jones and others to memorialize Amiri Baraka a week or so after his death.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 28, 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

Thought they'd be tripping over themselves to memorialize one of their own.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon

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

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 12, 2026

And near Marsden Wharf, a sidewalk mosaic memorializes the ship and Fernando Pereira.

From Slate Jul. 22, 2025

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

From Salon May 14, 2025

Then the Virgin Mary, in a voice brimming with anguish and outrage, memorializes the student protesters who were massacred by Mexican armed forces in 1968.

From Seattle Times Apr. 18, 2024

For this reason Christmas is an institution which memorializes the best there was in Pagan man.

From The Truth about Jesus : Is He a Myth? by Mangasarian, M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch)

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

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

From Salon Apr. 5, 2026

Lichtenberg’s approach to journalism is a far cry from the dogged, shoe-leather reporting memorialized in movies like “Spotlight,” about the Catholic church’s child-abuse scandal, or “All the President’s Men,” about the Watergate scandal.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 27, 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

He had been forgotten by so many people, but he deserved to be memorialized too.

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson

During the meal, she asked Honda to rehearse with her and her son, Sean Lennon, before they performed at a concert memorializing the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

From Los Angeles Times May 14, 2026

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

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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