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

When urban churchyards reached capacity in the 1830s, some U.S. cities opened cemeteries with planted trees and winding paths, creating bucolic places of remembrance and recreation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

“God knows you’re welcome to it,—so far as it was ever mine,” returned Joe, with a saving remembrance of Mrs. Joe.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens