dedicate
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She is one of the dedicatees of Ms. Stalnaker’s book because she had “a singularly clear-eyed view of what it meant to die as a nonbeliever.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026
Who are they, these merry, long-suffering, dedicatees, John, Bill, Steve and Jack?
From The Guardian • Oct. 26, 2014
She sustained him during his final ordeal, and survives him with their two sons, Daniel and Nicholas, the dedicatees of Ill Fares the Land.
From The Guardian • Aug. 8, 2010
Early copies contain only ten dedicatory sonnets, while later ones contain the full set of seventeen: for Spenser had made the signal blunder of omitting Lord Burleigh from the illustrious company of dedicatees.
From The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 by Spenser, Edmund
Not many other volumes, I believe, have been burlesqued and cried down in the public prints by their own dedicatees....
From Figures of Earth by Cabell, James Branch
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Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" (1863)
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