immortalize
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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
Voicemails From Gran’pa,” Caballero has used miniatures to immortalize his loved ones.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 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
But I gotta immortalize this dreamy look on his face.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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The picture immortalizes seasonality, a two-dimensional vision of eternal harmony.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 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
She also does the character— and Carrie Fisher, who immortalizes Leia as an adult— proud.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 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
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When they were kids, the Staten Island, N.Y.-based crew sought them out in theaters on 42nd Street in Manhattan, the low-culture hub immortalized as The Deuce.
From Salon ● May 31, 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
From there, the movie was immortalized in the meme canon with Andy’s Chanel boots and Miranda’s famous cerulean monologue.
From Salon ● Apr. 20, 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
“He added an angel, with a sword and a lantern, and Billy knew it was his brother, Marcus, who was now immortalized on the ceiling of the theatre...”
From "The Marvels" by Brian Selznick
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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
The first one immortalizing the Lakers legend was unveiled last month outside Crypto.com Arena and it has three glaring typos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2024
One wrote: “You have to take responsibility for immortalizing an idiot.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 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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