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remembrance

[ri-mem-bruhns] / rɪˈmɛm brəns /




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It is, at moments, elegiac in its remembrance of the people whose suffering and resistance gave birth to the citizenship clause.

From Slate Jul. 2, 2026

About 200 people wore red while taking part in a 5,000km run held in remembrance of Arsenal football fan Henry Nowak, the event's organiser said.

From BBC Jun. 29, 2026

Some describe the day as one they move through rather than move past, marking it with rituals of remembrance that reflect both loss and endurance.

From Salon Jun. 13, 2026

Hunter Sixkiller, who is part of the Blinn program, said he participated in Texas A&M traditions like the football game-day “Midnight Yell,” and “Muster,” a remembrance of students who died.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 11, 2026

Nel giggled at the remembrance of that teen-time tale.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison

Head was nothing like that fiction, demonstrated in the many remembrances that are still circulating in the wake of his death, which follows that of his wife, Sarah Fisher, by a matter of months.

From Salon Jun. 12, 2026

The cliché of Ozu’s films being austere or even severe is debunked by his work involving children, and by remembrances of the now-aged children he directed.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 30, 2026

He launches a passionate defence of preserving remembrances of the past, even if that past is "problematic" as a way of "ensuring public memory of its injustice".

From BBC Dec. 29, 2025

Dodger Stadium was full of remembrances Thursday for late star pitcher Fernando Valenzuela, who died on Tuesday at age 63.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 24, 2024

All down the way the sudden revealment, the flash of familiar eyes, the cry of an old, old name, the remembrances of other times, the crowd multiplying.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury




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