memento
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“It’s a memento to a certain period of time,” said Arasheben, whose company is Jason of Beverly Hills.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 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
Kelson’s memento mori, in its way, adds dignity to what is otherwise a sentence to nothingness.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026
My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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
Ceara says she feels nostalgic about shopping at Claire's and wishes she'd kept some items as mementoes.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2025
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 found Madame Hoo in their rear fourth-floor apartment kneeling before her bamboo trunk, fingering mementoes from her childhood in China.
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
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
It’s as heavy as a weight vest, with a zippered pocket in back for the mementos he just traded for and really wants to keep.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 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
In their basement are boxes of mementos from my childhood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
There were no pictures, no mementos, none of the normal clutter of growing.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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