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immortalize

[ih-mawr-tl-ahyz] / ɪˈmɔr tlˌaɪz /


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"For a melanocyte to transform into cancer, one of the biggest hurdles is to immortalize itself. Once it can do that, it's well on its way to cancer."

From Science Daily ● Jul. 1, 2026

The pharaohs of ancient Egypt built pyramids in the Valley of Kings to immortalize themselves.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2025

The new effort in Seattle emerges as a nationwide push to grapple with and immortalize the legacy and work of the Black Panther Party takes hold.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 14, 2024

Her performance as Velma Kelly in “Chicago” helped immortalize Bob Fosse’s dance vocabulary.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2024

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

At Notre Dame: The movie “Rudy” immortalizes a real-life 1975 Notre Dame-Georgia Tech game in which a walk-on football player and a teammate sacked the opposing quarterback, helping the Fighting Irish win 24-3.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026

The statue outside Crypto.com Arena that immortalizes Lakers legend Kobe Bryant after his 81-point game in 2006 misspelled the names of two players and one word.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2024

Diltz captures the mischief in Young, immortalizes him as an agent of chaos, the kind of guy who might show up one day with a bush baby on his shoulder.

From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2023

The main character in “Peking Duck” is a writer who immortalizes some memories of her immigrant mother’s lived experiences in her fiction but assures her mom that the characters aren’t her.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2022

The graffiti on the walls was marked by Deckers and their friends, sometimes the last piece of themselves the Deckers have left behind, something that immortalizes them.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera

It was immortalized by the composer Johann Strauss II as “The Blue Danube,” but the views from today’s cruise-ship windows are heavy on the grey-brown hues of dried-up riverbeds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Charles and Caroline are a handsome couple, with Pa hewn in the rugged spirit immortalized by Michael Landon in the 1970s TV classic.

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026

The Mike Vrabel and Dianna Russini saga has been forever subtly immortalized in a Chargers schedule release video.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026

The astronauts -- who immortalized the famous "Earthrise" photograph taken from lunar orbit -- were credited with having "saved 1968."

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

Seeing their cranky old camp director immortalized in stone, wearing a diaper and spewing water from his mouth, made her feel a little better.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

Although a passionate reader, he was a terrible speller, immortalizing “tea” as “tae” in a 1961 painting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Movie legend Tom Cruise and the player's pop star-turned-fashion designer wife Victoria Beckham will be at the ceremony on June 12 to unveil the plaque immortalizing the British midfielder on Hollywood's most famous thoroughfare.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

In immortalizing it in stone forever, there was an acceptance that once she stepped into this new role, there was no going back to what was.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2024

Here is a fine time to confess that when Cupo slung his arm around my shoulders, jazzed to play his part in immortalizing this moment, I had no idea who he was.

From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2023

Haas, an archaeologist at the Field Museum of Natural History, in Chicago, had plucked the fabric from the earth minutes before, two graduate students immortalizing the operation with digital cameras.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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