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memento

[muh-men-toh] / məˈmɛn toʊ /


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A story station inside the theatre will print the stories on eco-friendly paper as a memento, and the recordings will be available worldwide through the Bloomberg Connects app.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

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

An hour passes, but we’re all determined to take a piece of this day home — more than a memento, but proof that we were a part of it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026

I marveled at how each memento had made its way into Miss Sadie’s story.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

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

He looks through a cardboard carton, filled with diaries, albums and mementoes of his son.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2024

I remember something, too, of the green grave-mounds; and I have not forgotten, either, two figures of strangers straying amongst the low hillocks and reading the mementoes graven on the few mossy head-stones.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Biles has also filled the home with more personal touches, particularly inside her private office, where she has begun displaying mementos from her decorated gymnastics career.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

Many presidents, however, have given souvenirs or personal mementos to staff.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

Mel has a box full of letters, cards and other mementos from her time with the man she married in 2024.

From BBC ● Apr. 12, 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

So Jinx must’ve been the one who’d hidden the letters and mementos under the floorboards at Shady’s house.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool




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