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dedication

[ded-i-kay-shuhn] / ˌdɛd ɪˈkeɪ ʃən /




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In 2012, Love also attended the dedication of a $2.4 million roundabout project in the area, which was designed to improve road safety while supporting efforts to protect the lake’s water quality.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Scott Martin, Forestry England manager for Bourne Woods, said: "His passion, expertise and dedication have made a lasting difference to these forests and the wildlife that depends on them."

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Soon, the police were there in force, but the dedication of the outraged, chanting crowd demanding the men’s release ensured this would be no ordinary standoff.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

And when he continued with even more dedication this year, it wasn’t hard for Villani to see the connection between the renewed effort and the presence of a certain someone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

In fact, neither the well-worn anecdote about a disenchanted Beethoven ‘scratching out’ the title page of his symphony bearing a dedication to Napoleon, nor the composer’s musical radicalism are quite what they seem.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

“Epistolares” was all about sending letters and dedications.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

Some of the aging boxes contain autographs or dedications from the A-listers.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2025

As at the Chicago rat hole, an altar or shrine would have then been set up for pilgrims to offer dedications and make special requests.

From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2024

Jewish groups have long denounced these dedications, arguing soldiers in the Galicia Division swore allegiance to Adolf Hitler, and were either complicit in Nazi Germany's crimes or had committed crimes themselves.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2023

Poetry and drama were deeply involved in networks of patronage: praise-poems, sucky-up dedications, scurrilous broadsides, and vicious “flytings” of one’s rivals.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith


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