remembrance

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Train workers were staging a 24-hour strike on Monday in what their union called "an act of collective remembrance, protest and democratic vigilance".

From Barron's • Mar. 23, 2026

Most of this year’s documentary nominees deal with the grimmest of tragedies, as in “All the Empty Rooms” and “Children No More: Were and Are Gone,” which address the remembrance of children brutally killed.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026

In its way, “Today” has become a bright candle of remembrance and a symbol of communal care, along with a reminder that these broadly recognizable figures are still as human as the rest of us.

From Salon • Feb. 13, 2026

But starting in 2020 any public display of remembrance, however quiet and nonviolent, was banned.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

The figure twisted in its dim bed with a movement of remembrance, but froze as the pain shot through its skull.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White