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memento

[muh-men-toh] / məˈmɛn toʊ /


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His first book, “Lessons and Carols,” was published in 2023, and his second book, a digital memento mori, is expected in 2026.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 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

At the end of her visit, she was gifted a Wakefield Trinity shirt as a memento.

From BBC Jan. 27, 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

She ran then, carrying his knowledge, but her belt fell off and he kept it as a memento.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison

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

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

Along with some photographs and family videos, they are the remaining mementoes of his life in the house.

From BBC Oct. 7, 2024

She kept her mementoes in there—toys she used to play with, blankets she used to love, odd-looking rocks, pressed flowers, leather-bound journals densely scrawled with her thoughts and questions and pictures and sketches.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

“I wasn’t expecting an offer or anything,” Conlon said recently in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion office he has occupied for 20 years and laden with mementos soon to be boxed.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 18, 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There were long-out-of-date policies, receipts, family photographs, work mementos and then, undetected at the back of one of the steel grey drawers, was a brown envelope marked 'Everton: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

In his office are mementos his parents collected from reporting trips, including propaganda from Saddam Hussein-era Iraq.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 5, 2026

Pooh Corner has been a gift shop and tea room close to Pooh Sticks Bridge in Hartfield since 1978 and is filled with mementos.

From BBC Dec. 24, 2025

When Lettie and Ruthanne were quiet, I reached for the not-so-shiny Liberty Head silver dollar in my windowsill collection of mementos.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool




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