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
After dinner, I pass out little memento goodies such as honey, tea, candy or jams as party favors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
The 26-year-old was a short-format star - the Olympic rings tattooed on the inside of his right bicep are a memento of a bronze-medal winning campaign in Tokyo.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025
This memento is doubly painful, because I don't have Elsbeth anymore, either, because she is gone in a different way.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
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 started keeping mementoes when organisations such as Kelloggs, Essex Police and Maxwell House would advertise on the bottles.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 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
It's a trend that has filled TikTok and Pinterest as pupils look for more permanent mementos to be signed by their friends, while online marketplaces like Etsy offer thousands of personalised shirts for a fee.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
Cárdenas, who became a U.S. citizen in 1963, had his house, life savings and many priceless mementos from his broadcasting career seized.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 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
A teak bed from the Philippines and family mementos help to make the new ADU feel like home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
The box was now so stuffed with mementos it wouldn’t shut.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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