memento
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A story station inside the theatre will print the stories on eco-friendly paper as a memento, and the recordings will be available worldwide through the Bloomberg Connects app.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
A couple, out for a stroll, asked an AFP journalist to take a photo of them, a memento of a nice date back on their island home.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
An hour passes, but we’re all determined to take a piece of this day home — more than a memento, but proof that we were a part of it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026
His so-called “bone temple” is an actualization of his life philosophy, memento mori, which translates from Latin as “Remember you must die.”
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026
I marveled at how each memento had made its way into Miss Sadie’s story.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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And now, all of these years later, you feel ostracized from your remaining family and, more than that, you were left with a few mementoes of those formative years and no inheritance.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
She is moved by the sight of the mementoes left by other pilgrims at the foot of the cross and adds Tom and Lizzie’s things to the pile.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
Rahaf immediately set up what she called "a shrine" to her sister Sara, with photographs and mementoes, including her watch, carefully laid out on a bookcase.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2025
It may keep mementoes of successes, souvenirs that mark important events, treasured valuable items and things that may seem mundane and trivial to some but give meaning to others.
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2025
Tucked in between old woolen socks and pants were mementoes: circus bills, a dance card, penny postcards, a few photos.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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She becomes the de facto “keeper” of these letters and more mementos — a “strange gift,” she writes, the paper trail of something that should never have happened.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
Mel has a box full of letters, cards and other mementos from her time with the man she married in 2024.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
It’s as heavy as a weight vest, with a zippered pocket in back for the mementos he just traded for and really wants to keep.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026
There were long-out-of-date policies, receipts, family photographs, work mementos and then, undetected at the back of one of the steel grey drawers, was a brown envelope marked 'Everton: Season Ticket Sales'.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2026
Perry looked through old letters, photographs, clippings, and selected from them those mementos he meant to take with him.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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